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chap, revolutions, and so many different masters, that 
n ~ ; even in better times, when it was under the 
Mohammedan dynasty, few monuments existed of 
an earlier date than the establishment of the 
Genoese colony in the fifteenth century. Upon 
one of the columns of the principal mosque 
we found a Greek inscription, to the memory of 
Helen, a nun, and a person of the name of 
Tagman, who died, as it is expressed, in the year 
after Adam -6327, of the Byzantine reckoning, 
answering to the year of Christ 81Q, in the 
month of May. 
ENOAAEKATAKH 
TEHAOYAHTOYOEOY 
EAENHMONAXHETE 
AICCOHMHNHMAIOY 
I A* H M EPAA-nPAA- 
ETEAIOC0HOAOYAOI 
TOYOEOYTATMANMHNH 
MAIOYITH MEPAFIAPAZ 
KEYHflPAZ- AFIOAAAM 
ETOYZt T - K Z- 
At the entrance of the city, near to an edifice 
once a mint, are some ruins likely to be con- 
sidered as relics of antient Theodosia. They 
appeared to be of remote date. For the rest, 
it may be observed, that there does not exist in 
