Beaufort, Francis: Karamania, or a brief description of the south coast of Asia-Minor and of the remains of antiquity: with plans, views, &c. ; collected during a survey of that coast, under the orders of the lords commissioners of the admiralty, in the years 1811 & 1812 (London, 1817)

172 HAMAXIA.

marble, from eight to ten feet long, each
bearing two, three, or four inscriptions.
Some of these inscriptions are very long,
but much injured; others are more le-
gible, but deficient in that point for
which we persevered in the labour of
copying a great number,—the name of
the town. The only place that is men-
tioned in them is Side, of which Konon
and Nineis, to whose memory one of
these stones had been erected, were citi-
zens.

The names of Hamaxia and Iotape,are
introduced in the chart at this place; but
on no other authority than that of the
mere order of the names in Strabo and
Ptolemy. Could we have established
its antient name, by means of those in-
scriptions, it would have furnished a clue
to disentangle the obscurity in which all
this part of the coast is involved.