76 ISLAND OF PATMOS. 
CHAP, of the shell with the point of a knife, accom- 
' panied by a tremulous whistling. We found 
several kinds of shell-fish ; and could discern 
some large scollops lying upon the rocks beneath 
the clear still water, but they were out of our 
reach. Very fine spunges might also be gathered 
from the same rocks, all around the bay. It 
continued calm all the next day. The author 
went early on shore, to see if any antiquities 
might be found- between the two ports ; and 
was fortunate enough to discover two Greek 
Marbles; the first of which, a bas-relief with an 
inscription, he purchased and brought away. It 
was found by a peasant upon a small rocky isle 
near to the mouth of the harbour of La Scala. 
The sculpture had not much merit; but any 
relic is worthy of notice which exhibits an 
example of Grecian sculpture at Patmos, where 
no antiquity of this kind has hitherto been dis- 
covered. This marble is a sepulchral tablet, or 
CIPPUS, as distinguished from the STELE, and it 
is now deposited in the Vestibule of the Uni- 
versity Library at Cambridge 1 . The subject 
represented is the DEATH-BED of " ARISTEAS 
(l) See " Creek Marbles," No. XIII. p. II. Cautb. 1809. 
