MERGE TO GYRENE. 545 throw light upon the nature of the buildings, and to ascertain the period at which they were erected. There must be a considerable number of those buried in different parts of the city ; for we never saw an ancient town in which fewer inscriptions are to be seen than that of Cyrene ; especially for a town in which literature and the fine arts were cultivated with so much success. The few which we copied are scarcely worth inserting, and we shall only give (in addition to that over the fountain) another in Doric Greek, which is given by Signor Della Celia, in the reading of which we also differ in some respects from his copy. It was found upon a stone bearing the form of a pedestal, immediately without the wall above mentioned ; and the Doctor has suggested that the remains of a female statue, seated in a chair, which is lying in the road not far from it, was the representation of Claudia Arete, the matron, in commemoration of whose benevolence and virtue the inscription in question was erected by the Cyreneans. We give it below *, but are not of opinion that the ’ KAAYAIANAPATANiflAlZKG. e Y TAT E PA<f> rZ E I AEEY<t)AMClI MATEPA KA-OAYMniAAOZ Ai YiH in rrM naxiapxiaoz APETAZ ENEKA K.YPANAIOI aZz_ —AT T>\ EYNOIAZ