254 Clarice's travels. 
and upon the adjoining sepulchre these remarkable characters: 
o 
ffXl O‘Yf‘pP't''0VTEAI 
TEF[ A ° fU\ 
A very ancient mode of writing the name of the city is evident*,- 
in this inscription.* If the PI I, written in such legible cha¬ 
racters at the end, be the date, it denotes a degree of antiquity 
irreconcilable to the form of one of the letters, and would car¬ 
ry us back to a period equal to two thousand four hundred and 
forty-one years; but it may specify a sum of money, as iu the 
termination of the inscription upon the tomb of Helen. 
Over the entrance of a third sepulchre, near these, I found 
another very legible inscription,f with a square sigma: 
aioteimottot 
TAEnOAEMOTKAT 
AIOTEIMOTAIETOT 
TAEnOAEMOrriPOrONIKON 
And over a fourth, an inscription less perfect, with the same sigv 
tna, of which I could only discern these letters: 
APESTEIAOTTOr .., . . anAKTOS 
KAITONK I ........ , OMftNAXTOr 
But there were some of these sepulchres without any discover¬ 
able entrance* either natural or artificial; nor could we con¬ 
ceive how they w ; ere formed, or in what manner bodies were 
conveyed into the interior* The slabs whence the seeming 
doors were constructed, proved, upon examination, to be iute- 
* The arrow-headed character may be a numeral. See the first inscription in 
Muff'd Museum Veroncnse. 
t The last word in this inscription, TrpoTovsxiv, may be translated monumntvm csft 
t&n ; rip L-m being understood. Vi&. MaJTn Museum jteranmu, 59* 
