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but with the fnakes above the head, was placed over 
the gate of the city Ephefus, a draught of which is 
publilhed by Mr. Chifhull (i). Indeed the trigla^ 
or mullet, is faid by mythologifts to have been con- 
fecrated to Hecate ( 2 ) ; but there is no accounting 
for all the different fancies of fculptors. In Horfley 
we find two dolphins placed in a contrary attitude, 
with their heads upwards, one on each fide of a 
human figure, and a pine apple over it (3). And as 
garlands were a common ornament of fuch monu-- 
ments, one hangs acrofs each panel of this ftone, 
above the infcriptions. 
In the firft of thefe infcriptions the form of the 
expreffion, conjux triginta annorum^ is what I do 
not remember to have met with elfewhere ; and the 
point on each fide the letter I. after the abbreviated 
word CON. muft, I prefume, be afcribed to an error 
of the workman. And likewife in the fecond in- 
fcription, the divifion of the word devc*cvs, by 
a point in the middle j the omiting the letter a. in 
the abbreviated word ag. for agent and afterwards 
Interlining it j and the imperfedt letter p. for p. in 
the word patre, may beft be accounted for in that 
way. The third panel might be left vacant, in order 
to infert fome other infcription afterwards ; and the 
lower part of the done is now wanting below the in- 
fcriptions. 
III. In Number III, the ornamental part of the 
ftone has nothing in it, that requires obfervation. 
(1 ) Antiq. Aftat. Par. alter, pav. i. 
(2) See Pofs. Dc idololatr. L. ii. c. 29. p. 167. 
(3) Durham, iv. 
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