300 RUINS OF TELMESSUS. 
CHAP, from the shore to this remarkable cave. As it 
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was open in front towards the sea, it does not 
seem to have served for a place of sepulture. 
We may therefore conclude that it was one of 
the chambers of those juggling soothsayers, for 
which this city was particularly famous. 
The. walls of the Theatre of Telmessus fur- 
nished materials for building the pier of the 
present town. The sculptured stones, already 
noticed upon the exterior of that sumptuous 
edifice, may now be discerned in the later 
masonry of this work. All the marble used by 
the Turkish inhabitants of the place, in their 
coemetery, mosque, and public fountains, was 
taken from the remains of the Grecian city, and 
afterwards fashioned, by those barbarians, into 
shapes by which every trace of their former 
honours has been annihilated. Enough, however, 
yet exists, to prove the rank once maintained 
by the Telmessensians, although little can be found 
within the precincts of the modern town. Yet 
even here we observed some antiquities ; and 
among these a marble altar, on which a female 
figure was represented, with the extraordinary 
symbols of two hands figured in bas-relief, 
as if cut off and placed by her, and with this 
inscription : 
EIPHNHXAIPE 
