BENGAZr. 371 On the interior of the wall, as we have already stated, there are a good many Greek inscriptions ; but we were not fortunate enough to find their contents quite so interesting as Dr. Della Celia has supposed they might have been, when he tells us, that “all the annals of the city might perhaps be found registered on its walls We examined the whole space, however, very attentively and found only a collection of names, which we should scarcely have thought it worth while to copy had not the Doctor’s assertion made it necessary to shew what portion of information the inscriptions actually contained.

They will be found, with other inscriptions from the excavated tombs of Teuchira, in page 386 ; and it will be seen that the names are chiefly Greek, and the character, for the most part, Ptolemaic ; but no other dates could be found, on any part of the surface mentioned excepting the few which appear in the plate. The inscriptions alluded to by Signor Della Celia, on a quadrangular building towards the centre of the city, consist also wholly of names and dates ; they are encircled by a wreath, and it will be seen by the plate that these names are for the most part Roman. A few names, within a similar enclosure, were also visible on the wall of a turret, one of which (the most legible) we have copied.

The excavated tombs in the neighbourhood of Teuchira contain a vast number of Greek inscriptions ; but these also afford only names and dates, of different countries and periods ; and the most interesting piece of information that we were enabled to derive from Le mura della citta sono talmenti tapezzate di Grechi inscrizioni che forse trovansi qui registrati tutti gli annali di questa citta. (Viaggio da Tripoli, &c. p. 199.)

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