Fellows, Charles: Travels and researches in Asia Minor, more particularly in the province of Lycia (London, 1852)

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and but two or three of the gothic-formed sarcophagi: one
of these was inscribed with Greek characters.

I obtained but few inscriptions out of the very many on
the tombs, on account of the perished state of the surface
of the marble in this elevated situation. The extreme cost
of ornament, and the great size of the tombs standing on
stoas fitted for temples, surprised me much; they were like
the tombs of a large city which had disappeared; but the city
remained to show its original extent, which was very small;
its agora, theatre, and other buildings were indeed almost too
small to be recognized as suitable to the purposes of the
public meetings of the people of a city.

Several square buildings, not larger than many of the
tombs, have evidently been temples ; the scale and beauty

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