300 ROCK TOMBS AT SIDYMA. 



sarcophagi, terminated by a precipice, in the 

 face of which are excavated about forty plain 

 rock -tombs, resembling those in the high cliff of 

 Pinara ; but owing to the inferior quality of the 

 limestone, not nearly so well preserved. This 

 group of tombs is of importance, as affording 

 evidence of the antiquity of the site, and in 

 favour of the conjecture advanced by Colonel 

 Leake, that the Sidyma of later times was the 

 Cragus of more ancient. The route we travelled 

 yesterday was new, and chosen expressly with a 

 view to ascertain whether there existed any traces 

 of a ruined city in this group of mountains besides 

 Sidyma. We satisfied ourselves that there is 

 none. We could find no Lycian inscriptions at 

 Sidyma. 



In the afternoon we made our way to the 

 opening of a pass leading between the summits of 

 Cragus and Anticragus, now called Mendos and 

 Baba-dagh ; and put up for the night in the 

 little village of Teep, taking possession of a black- 

 smith's shed, the only fixed habitation. Teep 

 is a village of Urook tents, the skeletons of 

 which only remained, as during the day they 

 had been dismantled by their owners, who were 

 preparing to fly the summer heat, and migrate 



