TO RHODES. 251 
was evidently a votive donation, given by the chap. 
person whose name appears inscribed : '^ - y / 
APOAAriNlOY 
TOYAPOAAnNlOY 
MATMHTOZ 
Near the same place, another altar, and a few 
marbles with imperfect inscriptions, migiit be 
noticed, but none of them merit particular 
description-. In the interior of the town, by a 
public fountain, is a large cubic block of marble, 
upon which the inhabitants are accustomed to 
wash the bodies of dead persons. For this 
reason, it was difficult to obtain their permission 
to turn the stone, in search of an inscription; 
and still more so, to copy the legend we there 
found, when we had so done. At last, how- 
ever, we succeeded in transcribing the follow- 
ing characters : these form part of an inscription 
in honour of some one who had filled the offices 
of Agoranomos, of President of the Games, and 
Gymnasiarch : he is celebrated for his piety 
(2) It is very probable that these remains of votive offerings, and 
the remarkable plnne-tree by which they are overshadowed, are so 
many relics of the /isclepieum. — See the remarks made upon this 
subject, during our second visit to Cos ; Section II. Part II. of these 
Travels, Chap. \]U. p. 327. Broxhourn, I8li. 
