TO THE HERACLEOTIC CHERSONESUS. 
209 
From the style of the inscription, the late Pro- 
fessor Porson believed the date of it to have 
been at least two hundred years prior to Chris- 
tianity. We were afterwards conducted to the 
sepulchre, from whose mouth they had removed 
this Cippus. It was a family vault, hewn in 
the rock on the outside of the walls of the 
antient city of Chersonesus *. Within were recesses 
for the bodies of the dead. When opened, the 
soldiers found several bones in a state of pre- 
servation 5 ; and these they presently scattered 
among the ruins. There were many other 
sepulchres of the same kind, upon tho side of 
the rock where the Tomb ofTheagenes was found, 
all hewn in the same manner, and each closed 
by a large stone. Thus, evidently, the custom 
of the Chersonesus was to bury, and not to 
burn, the dead. With the single exception of 
the vase found at Yenikale, we observed no- 
where in the Crimea either ashes, urns, or any 
(2) A line from the Hecuba of Euripides , ( Editio Porsoni ,} with the 
following Note of the Editor, is my authority for writing Chersonesus 
instead of Cherronesus , although in opposition to the received text of 
almost every Greek and Latin author : 
“ "O s rtiv uptcrrr.v Xtp<roviitrta,v jrXecxu.” v. 8. 
Aldus et Codices sed alteram formam prteuntibus Beckio 
e t Brunckio reposui. Iterhm, v. 33. r»i rySt Xipmvntr/i?-” 
(3) This has been the case in some Grecian sepulchres, of much more 
antient date. 
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