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a Viazza supporred by 6 Tillars, two on one band os the Dotr, and twoon the orber, and at each End one, And the Tedestals of those in theFront have been fill’d with Inscriptionis both in Greek and the other Lan~guage ; buc they are now so Obliterated and worn our, as not to bc Intelli-gibie. The most Perfect was this that follows:

MAA€NTON KAIArPinnAN IAPAIOT tot paaiot TPAMMAT6AT6NOM6NON TO A6TT6PON" €niAHMI[A] ©€OT AAHANOr AAIMMA

ITAPACxOTA S 5 NOICT 6 KAI nOA€ITA|JC]. And a liccle beiotv wie

thcse straggling Lctters vilible.

6NH....N TTIHP6THCANT A THT .... CTPAT0TMA TOT ...TPIO....HKAI.TON NAON TON .... AIOC.... NT»T.

I should have imagin’d KAI to have been a Copulative, and the SecondName Agrippa distinct from the Former, but that the Words following inthe Singular Number, will not admit of such a Construction. The Perlonthen, in Memory of whom this Inscription was made, must have beenNam’d Makntus Cceagnppa, who bearing such an Office as Scribe, or thelike, in the Expedition of Adrian the Emperor, perform’d an Act of Po-blick Benificence and Generosity, both to Strängen and Citizens, denoted bythe Word AAIMMA,ot which Signifies Unfiion. Perhaps he Distributed

amongst them Sweet Ojls, to be uscd in, or after their Batbings. ’Tis Pity whatfollows is so Imperfect; and elpecially that we cannot find out the Date :For that might have Directed us to the Precise Time of Hadrian's Expedi-tion into thcse Oriental Parts, wherc he made great Conquesls, and enlarg’dthe bounds of the Roman Empire,

But as great a Curiosity as any, were their Seputcbers, being SyuareTowtrs , 4 or 5 Stories High, and standing on both sides of a HollowWay, towards the North part of the City, They stretch out in Lengththe Spacc of a Mile, and perhaps formerly might Extend a great way sijr-thcr. They were all of the fame Form, but of different Splendor andGreatness, according to the Circumstances of their Founders. The firstwe viewed was entirely Marble, but is now wholiy in Rums, and nothingbut a heap of broken Stones, amongst which we found the Pieccs of twoStatues , one of a Man, andanother ofaWoman, Cut in a Sitting, or ra-thet Leaning Posttire; the Heads and part of the Arms of both beingbroken off, but their ßodies remaining pretty Emire; so that we had theAd van tage of seeing their Habits, which apptar’d very Noble, but moreapproaching the turopean Falbion, than what is now in the East ; whichenclin’d me to rhink they might be Romans. Upon broken pieces ofStonc, tumbled here and there, we found sorae broken Inscriptions, butnot affording any perfect Sense, they are not worth the Transcribing.

Many other Sepulchers there were, as much gone to Decay as this,which therefore we past by, to go to Two which itood almost Opposite toone anotber, and seem’d most Perfect of any, though not without Marks

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