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Other sepulchres, of the same form, although not quite 
large, consist only of two masses of stone ; one for the body or 
chest of the sores; and the other for its operculum; and, to 
increase the w onder excited by the skill and labour manifested 
in their construction, they have been almost miraculously 
raised to the surrounding heights, and there left standing upon 
the projections and crags of the rocks, which the casualties of 
nature presented for their reception. One of them exhibits a 
bas-relief;, and by the left side of this, an inscription, but so 
nearly obliterated, that we could recover only a few of the 
letters. The relief represents a female figure seated, to w hom 
some one is presenting an infant. Four other figures, two male 
and two female, follow the person who carries the child. These 
again are succeeded by a train of attendants. Tins subject 
is common in Greece. It is similar to that described by Dr* 
Chandler at Sigeum,* and exhibits the presentation of a new¬ 
born babe to the tutelar deity, on the fifth day after its birth. 
It is not quite so clear for what purpose this subject was intro¬ 
duced upon a sepulchral monument, unless it were erected in 
memory of one who died in childbed. The only letters dis** 
iinet were the following r 
_.. A H ,. . P A 
. . . AUMHTPfO 
. . . .©EETRATQN 
..TAKAA A.. 
ONIOXAIGINH 
KTAiON.. 
Upon the opposite side of this soros, toward the mountain, E 
found also a part of another inscription: 
F E A R T O.... A A 0 A S K. ■ .A...KN... Crl ¥ 
This tomb consists of two entire stones, standing upon a lofty 
rock, difficult of access. One stone, being hollowed; affords a 
receptacle for tile body; the other supplies its ponderous co¬ 
vering. 
IMfear this is another tomb, with a simple bas-relief, but not 
of less massive materials, nor less elevated in its situation. The 
practice of adorning the soros is not of a date so remote as the 
chaster style observed in sepulchres of Macedonia, and in 
*■ Travels m Asia Minor., p, as. See also a plate m Abe Ionian Antiquities, 
