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hereafter be brought to hght upon the same chap. 
spot. We were unable to copy the whole of the , ,, ^'. . 
inscriptions that we found ; and perhaps some 
of them would be considered as destitute of any 
archaic or pnlceographic character. One of them 
evidently belongs to an eccesiastical establish- 
ment, founded here long after the Christian asra: 
it is in the wall of the monastery church ; and, i-'^'p'-^"- 
-' scriptions. 
as a specimen oi calligraphy, it is highly deserv- 
ing of notice; being executed upon marble in 
so elaborate and beautiful a manner, that every 
letter is sculptured in relief: it may serve, there- 
fore, as a specimen of the style of the age when 
it was written. Such inscriptions in relievo were 
common at the latter end of the fourteenth and 
the beginning of the Ji/teenlh century ^ It states, 
that "LEO, THE PROTOSPATHARIUS, AND STEWARD ' 
OF THE EMPEROR, BEAUTIFIED THE TEMPLE OF 
(3) The author foumi an inscription of tiiis kind at Kaffa in tbe 
Crimea, bearing date a.d. 1400. It is in the Armenian language, and 
the letters are all sculptured in relief. For a further account of it, 
see "Greek Marbles" p. 8. A'io. viii. The original Marble is now in 
the University Library at Cambridge. 
(9) In recollecting the permutation of letters so common in the 
lower ages of the Graek Empire, and which may be found so early a^^ 
the third century after Christ, we find frKTuvvKwuKut written in tl^e 
inscription for M twv olx.iiar.ui. The person who held this office had 
under his care the private patrimony of the Emperor. See Du Cange, 
m V. OiKiiaxa. 
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