( 9»6 ) 
I (aw another on the Wall of the great Church 
which (eems to have been the Bale of a Statue ; the 
Jnfcription is as follows. 
RESP VBLICA OBEN' 
SISE..LO DATO 
DEDI...VIT CVR AT 
LIBE..OR H..REN 
NIO RVSTICO H.M. 
SINILO RESTITVTO 
II VIR. 
'The manner in which the Moors have placed thefe 
Infcriptions plainly Ihews the little value they let upon 
them, and there is fo great a plenty of Scone on the 
Rock where Bands, that it is not to be thought 
they would fetch them for fuch an ufe, from any di- 
Rant place ; which induces me to believe a Roman 
Town formerly Hood there called O B A. 
I do not find any Town of that name in tlie ancient 
Authors. Strabo L. 111. mentions McuVoiSa ^ 
cT^&iss, which may polTibly comprehend Oba. The6V^>« 
grafhia Nubienjis, in the fourth Climay makes a Town 
called Rothan^ the firlt Station from Algezeira to Seville, 
which perhaps may have been this Oba ; for it is about 
a Daysj journey from AlgezeJra, zod in the diredRoad 
fronii thence, to Seville. 
Mariana places Lib.ni, C. z. the Cave vthetQ Craffus 
hid himfelf, near JCmena ; the Marks of it, given by 
Plutarch, are common to moll others. I went three 
Leagues in fearch of it ; but the Country People having 
a notion that there is a Treafure in it, and not being 
to be perfuaded that I would take fo much Pains out 
of pure Curiofity, would not (hew me the Way, tho’ 
^they acknowledger! there were feveral fuch Caves 
thereabouts. I cannot help taking notice of one very 
