316 RUINS OF TELMESSUS. 
CHAP, were others of Phoenician workmanship. In 
VIII. 
' proof of this, we shall here insert two inscrip- 
tions, copied from tombs adjoining each other ; 
both being hewn out of the same rock, and, to 
all appearance, by the same people. Upon the 
first appeared, 
Tl B EPIOYK A AYA I 
OVn EPTA M OY 
and upon the adjoining sepulchre these remark- 
able characters: 
A very antient mode of writing the name of the 
city is evident in this inscription'. If the P I \, 
written in such legible characters at the end, be 
the date, it denotes a degree of antiquity irre- 
concileable to the form of one of the letters, and 
would carry us back to a period equal to two 
thousand four hundred and forty-one years: but 
it may specify a sum of money, as in the 
(l) The arrow-headed character >«ffy be a numeral. See the first 
Iiiicrij.tion in Mcffci Museum flroncnst: 
