FROM NICHOLAEF, 
of a malefactor, who had obtained remission 
of punishment. 
AXIAAEinONTAPXH 
OiriEPINEIKHPATON 
NEIKHPATOYNEI2 
TEPON APXONTEZ 
Z K PATH Z A NT I <t> 12 NTO Z 
EYPHZH B I OZZTPATflN OZ 
FlEAAIOZYriANEOZ 
X API ZTH P I O N 
IEPATEYONTOZ 
MOYKOYN AKYPOYTOA 
The rest of this valuable inscription is not legible. 
It records the dedication, probably, of a statue to 
Achilles, whose name appears with a new epithet. 
It tends to confirm what antient authors have 
asserted, of the importance attached to the 
worship of that hero by various tribes on the 
borders of the Buxine. From the foregoing 
inscriptions, we may form some idea of the 
peculiarities of the Scythian dialect, proving 
what Dio has said relative to the ignorance of 
with the Romans, got possession of some lands which belonged to the 
Sarmatian Jaiyges : when he had concluded peace with Rome, he 
resigned these lands to Trajan, who restored them to their former 
possessors. This Inscription, therefore, is probably upon the fragment 
of a pedestal which supported a statue of Trajan in the 1 orum of 
Olbiopolis. 
