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The latter infcription mentioned above, as ere&ecf 
in honour of Mithridates Eupator , was found, as 
Sport informs us, upon a round bafis, at a great di- 
ftance from the other. It is likewife taken notice of 
by Wheeler , tho he has given no draught of it. But 
Tournefort fuppofes it to have been gon, before he 
was there ; becaufe, upon fearching for it, he could 
not find it. Which indeed is not to be wondered at; 
fince we are told by Spon, that Delos being intircly 
in ruins, and without any inhabitants, the antient 
remains, being of Tartan marble, are frequently 
carried away by Grangers, either for curiofity or ufe. 
However Tournefort difeovered part of another 
pedeftal, in the lhape of a cylinder, not far from the 
former of the two already mention’d. It lay half 
buried in the fand, but being opened and wafhed, 
an imperfed infcription was found upon it. The 
remaining words of which are thefe : 
BA2IAE02 NIKOMHA.. 
tot rrroNor o basiaeos 
NIKOMEAOT ( l 2 3 ) Eni4>ANOT 
«... KOTPIAH2 ( s ) AIOSKOPIAOT 
P AMNOTSIOS TTMNA2IAPX0.. 
In Latin thus : 
Regis 
(1) lam obliged likewife to Dr. Askew for a copy of this inferi^ 
ption, taken by himfelf ; by which it appears, that T in this word is 
a miftake for T, as the Dotftor has writen it. 
(2) The E in this word is alfo a miftake for H, as it is writen 
in the firft line here, and by Dr. Askew in both places. 
(3) I take this to be the fame name as the following; the middle 
fyllable of which is ufually writen with O, but fometimes with Q T, 
See Grut. fag. lxxxvi. vum. 2 . 
