TO THE CIMMERIAN BOSPORUS. 91 
valuable document is afforded by the remaining CI J I AP - 
characters, which may lead to the illustration ' 
of other inscriptions found in this country, as 
well as of the Bosporian history. This inscrip- 
tion doubtless refers to the reign of Rhescuporis 
the First ; because, in addition to his own name, 
occurring in the fourth line, he bore also the 
name of Tiberius Julius, which appears in the 
line immediately preceding: this he had assumed 
in honour of the Emperor to whom he was 
indebted for the kingdom. His son, Sauromates 
the First, did the same’. According to a prac- 
tice among the Greeks, of taking the name of a 
Roman Emperor, Rheemetalces the First, of Thrace, 
assumed the prcenomina of Caius Julius' 1 2 . The 
name of Diophantus , in the last line, had been 
celebrated in the annals of Pontus and of Bosporus, 
as the name of a General in the army of 
Mithradates, who built the city of Eupatorium in 
the Minor Chersonesus 3 . It may further gratify 
curiosity, to observe the singular mode of 
spelling the word Boosporus, in the third line, 
(1) Professor Koehler’s copy of this inscription being more perfect 
than that which appeared in the first edition of this volume, the author 
lias been enabled to correct an error in the reading. Sauromates the 
First was son of Rhescuporis ; as appears by the legend in its present 
state. 
(2) Hist, des Rois dn Bosphore, par Cary, p. 43. Paris, 1752. 
(3) Strab. lib. Tii. p. 451. ed. O.con. 
