284 INSCRIPTION. 



inscribed rock. It did not prove of the in- 

 terest we anticipated, and was merely a fune- 

 real tablet, badly carved, of late date, and much 

 defaced. All that could be correctly copied, 

 was as follows : — 



OIAOAOrEXAIPE 

 (then a rude carving of an animal) 



KA . . AMIAYA 



. . OAOrONA . . X . . . 

 . . . NT . . . H2KA . . . 

 A . . MON1A2E 



About three miles farther up the glen, we 

 came to a water-mill, above which, in a pictu- 

 resque nook, is the village of Kooyoo. The only 

 stone buildings in it were the mosque, and stran- 

 ger's house. The inhabitants lived in tents. 

 Beyond it we found a few sarcophagi and built 

 tombs ; also several tablets similar to that at 

 the mouth of the valley, but better cut and 

 well preserved. They bore short funereal inscrip- 

 tions. One of them was remarkable, bearing a 

 figure in relief, of the humped ox, resembling 

 that represented on certain coins of Smyrna. 

 The bull, as represented in a like position on 

 coins of Greece and Italy, has no hump. 



