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repetition. It was inscribed upon the lower chap. 
part of a plain marble pillar : this we removed ^ 
to the Dardanelles, and afterwards sent to 
England. The interpretation sets forth, tb.at 
*^ THOSE PARTAKING OF THE SACRIFICE, AXD 
OF THE GAMES, AND OF THE W^HOLE FESTIVAL, 
{honoured) Pytha, daughter of Scamax- 
DROTIMUS, NATIVE OF IlIUM, WHO PERFORMED 
the OFFICE OF CaNEPHOROS IX AX EXEMPLARY 
AND DISTINGUISHED MANNER, FOR HER PIETY 
TOWARDS THE GoDDESs." In the conjecture 
already offered, that the stream, on the banks 
of which these edifices were raised, and these 
voics were offered, was the Soio'is of the Antients, 
some regard was necessarily intended, both 
to the Ruins here situate, and to the Inscription 
to which reference is now made. A certain 
degree of collateral, although of no positive 
evidence, may possibly result from the bare 
mention of places and ceremonies, connected 
by their situation, and consecrated by their 
nature, to the history of the territory where 
SiMOis flowed. 
Near to the same place, upon a block of inscrip- 
^ tion%. 
Parian marble, we found another Inscription, 
but not equally perfect. The following letters 
were all we could collect, from the most careful 
examination of the stone : 
