TITIIOREA. 281 
MANXER OF SWATHING THE VICTIMS. After CHAP. 
makiiiQ; this curious observation, it is further 
V. 
remai'ked, by the same author, that the 
Egyptians celebrate their festival of his when 
the iV?7e begins to rise°: and hence it maybe 
inferred (as the Tithorean sclemnitij was an 
imitation of the Egyptian festival, even in such 
minute parts of the ceremony as the swathing of 
the victims, also described as being huriecV near 
to the sacred Adytum of Isis^) that the burial of 
the sivatlied animals in the earthen pots at Saccara 
took place in the same manner, and at the 
celebration of the same festival. 
In the sanctuary belonging to the church of inscription 
TT- • r ^ 1 ■ 1 relating to 
yelitza, we round an inscription which confirmed Tithoeea. 
our conjecture with regard to the original name 
of the city whose ruins we had so fortunately 
discovered. It commemorates a tribute of 
honour rendered to Nerva, with an enumeration 
of his titles, by the citizens of Tithorea and 
the family of the Flavii, whose names are 
specified : 
(6) PfiHsun. ibid. p. 881. 
(7) Kai xaT<ipvirirau(riv ivrau^u, Ibitl. p. 880. 
(S) "A^vTot iifov "ifiies. Ib;d. 
