RUINS OF ORCHOMENUS. 189 
was necessary to encounter, in making a faithful chap. 
V. 
transcript from the marbles ; whence it will be 
manifest that his copies of the Orchomenian inscrip- 
tions are full of inaccuracies. With regard to the 
Tumuhts near Screpu, as this is one of two remark- Tomb of 
able tomhs mentioned by Pausanias*, and as 
his description of the other connects it with 
the Treasury of Afini/as (concerning whose situa- 
tion there can be little doubt to a person upon 
the spot), perhaps we shall not err if we consider 
this to be the identical mound heaped over the 
bonesof H ESI OD, when the Or chomenians removed 
them from the territory of Naupactus \ 
We were conducted, upon our arrival at jrcha^c 
Screpii, to a Monastery. In the wall of this tions"''' 
building we found three inscriptions upon one 
tablet ; and of these, the two first relate to a 
sum of money which had been paid by the Lord 
of the Treasury'^ to Eubulus, in the archonship of 
Thynarchus ; and the bonds, which are kept in 
the hands of some people of Phocis and Chceronea, 
whose names are mentioned, are cancelled ^ 
With regard to the third inscription, remarkable 
(4) Vid. Pans. ibid. pp. 786, 787. 
(5) Ibid. 
(6) " Tayiti'a;, prafectus airarii." W(dpole's MS. Note. 
(7) " ' Kia.i^u(tia.i rni cuyy^a.^nv, syiigrapham irritam facere, S.»v^at9M'ii.^ 
Budceus. Walpole MS. Note. 
