92 FROM THE CIRCASSIAN FRONTIER, 
c hap. aiK i the mention made of the city of Panticapceim 
' in the eighth. 
Seven other inscriptions, found near to this 
church, and among the ruins of Phanagoria, 
have since been communicated to the author, 
by the liberality of a Traveller, whose name was 
inserted in a former page 1 . Owing to their 
importance in illustrating the obscure annals of 
the Bosporian history, they are placed here, 
together with the observations made upon them 
by the learned Professor Koehler, whose remarks 
upon the inscription discovered upon the bor- 
ders of the Lake of Temrook have been already 
introduced. The first of these inscriptions 
occurred upon the pedestal of a statue of Venus, 
in the garden of the church at Taman. 
AIMOYOYfATHPZ . . P . . KOYAETYNHANE 
POAITHlEYZAMENHAPXONTOZZnAPTOKOYTOYE^ 1 
KAIBAZIAEYONTOZ 
The first line is defective; and cannot be 
restored, unless, by further discovery, we can 
ascertain the genealogy of the wife of Spartocus, 
who here probably commemorates a statue she 
caused to be erected to Venus. It should be 
(!) See Note (2) in p. 79 of this volume. 
