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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urch, whosebirth-place is still holy ground at Patara. This saintappears to be more venerated here than St. Paul, whovisited Myra on his voyage to Rome*. The old priest tells us that he alone is left upon theplain after the middle of May, as every hut in this vil-lage and on the plain is then deserted for the moun-tains, on account of the heat and the appearance of anoverwhelming number of mosquitos or gnats. A largeblack fly also appears at that season, which stings thecattle; at its approach they are described running as ifmad into the mountains. Another sketch represents a mass of tombs cut in therock, near to the theatre ; one of these is pointed out bytwo small figures, and is again drawn upon the follow-ing Plate : the Turkish figure below may serve as a scalefor the sculpture above, which is colossal. The following fragment in the Greek language I co-pied from a rock-tomb, above which were several linesillegible from the filtering of the waters over the rock : * Acts xxvii. .5.
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ha Fellows Esq ©ASKELOEfF AT . . ■ . MYRA. 201 TOYTOTOMONKATEXYEAPAAZAABHITHIOIOYOTONftN NftNAEZOZ0YZII1NnOAIZGYEIKKNOISAYTHSTAMBPOIZKAIMPIEYETftTOYMOYAAAHZOnnAKAITATEKNAKAIOTAMBPOIAYTHZEANAETIZBIATHTAIANOI1AITOMNHMEIONTOYTOnAPEYPEZENTYMMHNETKHIKAPnONM ftNEAHBOA KAIAMAP NOITOEIS NKAIEIZTO YZOEOYZ * * The greater part of this inscription, which is funereal, is illegible,or left without connection. In the seventh and eighth lines are men-tioned sacrifices (or burials, see page 134,) made by the city. Thenare enumerated (not named) the persons entitled to be buried in thetomb, viz. the children and sons-in-law of the proprietress. The lastlines seem to have contained a curse against him who should attemptto open the tomb, similar to a curse with which the like offence isthreatened by Demetrius Phalereus on a tomb-stone now to be seenat Oxford (see Chandlers Marm. Oxon. II. 60) : The earth shallbear no fruit unto him, and he shall be an enemy to the gods. 202 LYCIA. The following was w

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