TO ODESSA, 
361 
in the Museum at Tulazyn ; they have also been chap. 
recorded by Count John Potocki. ' — 
APxnoYAmnnANO 
OKAEITHKAIMAZTO 
NflPOinOIANllAI 
OZZIIZIPI^OKAI A I 
OT H NZT HAANOAAOI 
thienmnhmhnkai 
The above commemorates the gratitude of 
the inhabitants of Olhiopolis to the Emperor 
Trajan s . 
AITIOZnOAAOIZKAI ... 
AYO A I PETOZF1 OAAA .... 
THZER APXE lOZYn A .... 
ZAPM ATI AZBAZI AEIZ . . . . 
<!>EIZAMEINOZMOEn .... 
AYNATAITH Ell 
A A Z Y M <t> EP O .... 
OEIHBYAENZ 
KYPI OYZ 
TOYAN ABA 
TOI ME 
This inscription probably records the gratitude 
(2) Inscriptions become doubly valuable when they serve to illus- 
trate History. Droller, in his Supplement to the Histories of Tacitus +, 
has these words : “ Redditi Sarmalis Jazt/gibus agri quos Decelalus 
occupaverat.” This Dccebulus was a king of Ducitt, who* in his war 
with 
t Brot. Tacit. Vol. V. p. 171 
