184 GAG.E. 



Mr. Sharpe having formerly attributed a coin 

 bearing the triqueter and Lycian characters to 

 Gagse, we anxiously sought for rock-tombs with 

 inscriptions in that language, but could find no 

 traces of such remains. Since our return, how- 

 ever, that ardent investigator of Lycian anti- 

 quities having been enabled, by the additions 

 to his collection of inscriptions in the Lycian 

 character, to improve the alphabet, has rejected 

 Gaga? from the list of cities which used the 

 peculiar three-pronged emblem alluded to, — a 

 conclusion agreeing with our observations on the 

 spot. 



The ruins of Gagse are situated about half a 

 mile within the present sandy shore at the east- 

 ern extremity of the plain of Phineka. Part 

 of the city stood on the plain, and part on the 

 brow of a hill, which rises close to the sea. On 

 this hill was the acropolis ; and between the 

 acropolis rock and the sea is a small white rock, 

 rising thirty feet above the plain, and bearing 

 traces of middle-age buildings. This is the Ak- 

 tash, the white rock, which gives the modern 

 name to the locality. The ruins on the plain 

 are considerable : they are all, apparently, of 

 Roman and middle-age date. Several substan- 



