)4 FROM THE CIRCASSIAN FRONTIER, 
chap. The above, which is very defective, relates to 
- i — v the temple of Venus Apaturias. Sciuromates had 
caused this temple to be repaired. Strabo 
alludes to it, when he says 1 , that, on entering 
the Bay of Corocondama, there appears, to the 
left, a temple dedicated to Venus apaturias. He 
adds, that in the city of Phanagoria there was 
another temple to the same Deity. 
Upon the pedestal of a statue at Taman was 
also the following : 
AYTOKPATOPAKAIXAPAE . OYAIO 
ZEBAZT .... NnAZH5XHZKAI . . 
. . . OAAAZXHZA . . ONTA 
TONEAYTHZXnTHP ETH . 
BAXIAIZXAAYr . . 
This inscription records the gratitude of a queen, 
perhaps Dyrgatao, which may be the same as 
Tirgatao, mentioned by Polycenus. It appears 
that she dedicated a statue to the Emperor 
Helvius Pertinax, for having afforded assistance in 
repelling the incursions of her enemies. Koehler 
believes that she was wife of Sauromates 111. 
or the widow of a prince of some neighbouring 
state. 
(1) Vid. Strabon. Geog. lib. xi. 
