102 ISLAND OF NAXOS. 
CHAP, digging for building materials among the remains 
of the antient city: he found the shaft of the 
column near to it, and a small antique lamp of 
terra cotta. The pillar itself was, in all pro- 
bability, a sepulchral stele. The inscription is 
hardly worth preserving, as it contains only a 
few names ; but one is unwilling to neglect the 
preservation of any Grecian relic, and espe- 
cially where few are found. 
XAI HTOZKAI 
HPOAOYKAIZE 
AEYKOYKHOAXP 
OY 
AIOTENOY 
KAI 
AM MHN IOY 
nPOK'vozn po 
KAOYKA I AA E 
ZAN APOYKAI 
ZttZI MOY 
ZY 
We were afterwards shewn, upon the top of a 
house below the walls of the fortress, a small 
slab, rather of Parian than of Naxian marble 
(the grain being finer than in the latter), con- 
taining an inscription of great antiquity: the 
letters were small; and they were exceedingly 
