306 RUINS OF TELMESSUS. 
CHAP, in almost every inscription found upon these 
' shores'. 
Tomb of Upon the ridit hand of the mouth of the Soros, 
daughter of is an Inscription, in legible characters, of the 
highest importance in ascertaining the identity 
of the city to which it belonged, as well as in 
the illustration it offers concerning the nature of 
the monument itself. The author copied it with 
all the] care and attention it was possible to 
bestow, when exposed to the scorching beams of 
a powerful sun, and to mephitic exhalations 
from the swamp in which it is situate. By the 
legend, this monument is proved to have been 
the Tomb of Helex, daughter of Jason, a 
WOMAN of Telmessus. It is difficult to com- 
prehend what is intended by the turret, unless 
it be the superior receptacle, or Soros itself. We 
learn, from this inscription, that Greek tombs 
were not always exclusively appropriated to the 
interment of a single body, although such strict 
injunction be sometimes expressed against the 
(l) Tlie late Professor Porson, to whom the author shewed the inscrip- 
tion he discovered upon this Soros, maintained that it was evidently 
older than the hundredth Olympiad. Reckoning, therefore, to the 
time in which it was found, the antiquity of this monument 
amounted to two thousand one hundred and seventy-one years ; for 
the hundredth Olympiad terminated with the year 377 B. C. Professor 
Porson himself afforded the translation of this inscription, as it will 
be found here given ; the author having cai'efuDy inserted it, literally 
and verbally, from the copy left with him by his lamented friend. 
