RHODES. 283 
The inscriptions which we noticed at Rhodes chap. 
were principally upon marble altarsy of a cylin- ^ ■y-i/ 
drical form, adorned with sculptured wreaths, 
and festoons supported by rams' heads, as at 
Cos, and in other parts of Greece. The Jirst of 
these altars was decorated with wreaths of 
laurel, and it was thus inscribed: 
AYZANAPOYAYZANAPOY 
XAAKHTAKAITAZrYNAIKOZ 
KAEAINIAOSKAAAIKIATIAA 
KPOAZZIAOZ 
It relates to Lysander and to his wife Clecenis. 
Upon a second, with the rams' heads, appeared 
only the name of a person who had placed it as 
a voiu : 
PYErO A 
AOPEriN oz 
upon a third, corresponding in its ornaments 
with \hQ Jirst, was the name of Polycleitus, the son 
of Polyaratus ; 
POAYKAEITOZ 
nOAYAPATOY 
By imitating the classical simplicity and the 
