Identifier: accountofdiscov00fell (find matches)
Title: An account of the discoveries in Lycia, being a journal kept during a second excursion in Asia Minor
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Fellows, Charles
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Publisher: London, Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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en, Epagathus, also called Dius and Epagathus. But uponthe ahove-mentioned persons being buried in the upper tombs, itshall be lawful for nobody else to be buried in the upper tombs; butin the lower tombs there are to be buried his mother Malabathrine,and Epaphrodeitos and Zosime, the children of Epagathus, and Ste-phanos, the son of Hermus (?), grandson of Ptolemseus and Caloty-chus, the son of Publius, and his son Calotychus. But to nobody elseit shall be permitted to bury another in the monument; but if any-body do bury, he shall owe to the People of the Sidymeans 1500 (?)denarii, of which he who proves (the trespass) shall have (?) one-third.The inscription given above is likewise (recorded) in the archives under the high-priest on the day of Apellseus—(i. e. second month of the Syro-Macedonians, from the 24th of October tothe 24th of November). * These fragments probably belonged to some abstracts of the pre-ceding inscription, which were written on different parts of the tomb.
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I 1 sg?*- : « COFFERED CEILING. Etched by 0- Scharf . TOMB at SB BYRfflA. John Murra/. London 1841. SIDYMA. 155 so early as that of Pinara or any of the cities moremarked by the Lycian peculiarities. In this city wesaw no Cyclopean walls, and none of that other ex-treme of art, differing in all points but its simplicity,the sculpture accompanying the Lycian inscriptions.I saw only one ornamented tomb in the rocks, andbut two or three of the gothic-formed sarcophagi: oneof these was inscribed with the following Greek cha-racters : ArAeOKAHSKAIAPNAKHZO0APNAKOKATEEKEYAZAN TOMNHMA^* I obtained but few inscriptions out of the very manyon the tombs, on account of the perished state of thesurface of the marble in this elevated situation. Theannexed Plate will show one of the tombs of whitemarble ; the slab forming the ceiling I have drawnseparately, to show the high finish of its sofits. Theextreme cost of ornament, and the great size of thetombs standing on stoas fitted for temple

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