There is much doubt and uncertainty about the functions of the priests and priestesses of the Roman Emperors, as well as concerning the date of the institution of the office. Consequently all inscriptions which bear on this interesting point are of great importance, especially if they are dated, as is the case with the following inscription. The date of an inscription is always important, and it is in regard to the date of this inscription that M Paris has sinned grievously. The stone has ΕΤΟΥΣ • ΣΠΘ in large and perfectly preserved letters, with an unmistakable dot between the two Σ's. This makes the date 205 A. D., whereas M. Paris leaves out the 2 of the date and reads ΠΘ, that is, 5 A. D. Thus he misses the truth by a matter of 200 years.

The inscription is in the wall of the minaret of the mosque. It is noteworthy that on a ground stone of this same minaret there is another inscription, not ten feet distant from the one given above. For this inscription we look in vain in the paper of M. Paris.

In the following inscription M. Paris reads ποιησαμένης instead of προνόησαμένης, The letters von are in ligature, so that the v and the η are combined, and above them is a small o; the and p were also most probably in ligature, although in my copy I find π alone.

[' Αγα]θῇ τύχη

Ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησεν
Κόϊντον) Μέμμιον Χαρίδημον
Τεύθραντα, 'Ασίας ἀρχιερέων
ἔγγονον, ἥρωα, άριστον ῥήτορα,
τῆς ἀναστάσεως π[ρ]ονοησαμένης
Στατειλίας Καλλιγόνης τῆς
μητρὸς αὐτοῦ·

ἔτους τεθ ̓, μη(νὸς) θ'.

Date 245 A. D.

In the following inscription in the yard of the Mussafir Odah of Seljikler, M. Paris wonders at the strange form παντοπώλης. Unfortunately the stone has παντοπώλης pure and simple.

Not having the Bulletin beside me, I do not know what M. Paris has made of the praenomen in line 1. The stone is broken at the commencement for the space of three letters. The first letter is gone; the second is probably an N, the third is either a T or a T. The praenomen may be 'Avr., but cannot be Αύρ.

[' Αντ ?] Πωλλίων παντοπώλης
αὐτῷ καὶ τῇ γυναικὶ Αύρ.
'Αμμίᾳ Ζηνοδότου καὶ τοῖς
τέκνοις αὐτοῦ κατεσκεύασεν
ζῶν τὸ ἡρῶον· εἰ δέ τις ἕτερον
ἐπισενένκῃ τινὰ ἔστε αὐτῷ
πρὸς τὸν θεόν.

ἔτους τμ', μη(νὸς) θ', κ'.

Date 256 A. D.

J. R. S. STERRett.

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