ATHENS. 
engraven in the stone, after the manner of those 
Inscriptions which we discovered at Jerusalem, 
over the doors of the tombs in Mount Sion 1 . 
The only letters sufficiently perfect to be legible 
are the following ; but the termination of the 
upper line could not be ascertained, and this 
line was remarkably separated from the lower 
part of the inscription by a natural or artificial 
linear cavity in the stone : 
AHEIEWNIANOZAAI... 
TPinO CAN E0EC AN 
In its very imperfect state, it must be left to the 
conjectures of the learned 2 . The importance 
of its situation;, and the circumstance of its 
never having been published before, certainly 
entitles it to the Reader's notice. As to its 
interpretation, it evidently refers to the erection 
of tripods: this appears both from the words 
of the inscription, and from its contiguity to the 
Choragic Pillars. The name Pisonianus seems 
to occur before Aa;; and these letters may 
(1) See Vol. IV. of the Octavo Edition of these Travels, p. 33G, &c. 
(2) TgAraf is found in Hesychius. The use of the verb anfftfat occurs 
thus in Lucian : "TXf aviriftoin, */ og>i iti0tffav, x.a,i ogvitt xafaigvrat, xu.1 
fa. Qo<ra. I'jrt^/jt.ifaa ixaffry (ify Monies dedicarunt, vel consecrdrunt, 
unicuitjue Deo, 
