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MARMARICE TO MUGHLA. 623
Descending from the platform, I came to the
foundations of a tower facing west. Part of these
foundations had heen carried away by the fall of
the rock from above. A large chasm, 40' deep,
intervenes between the north and south walls of
this tower.
I could not hear of any antiquities at Mughla,
but Ross discovered here in the house of a Greek
inhabitant a marble pedestal inscribed with a dedi-
cation by Nicholaos, the son of Leon of Rhodes,
to Hermes, Herakles, and the xotvov or community
of the Tarmiani. He supposes that this xotvov was
one of the coi/ceuius noticed by Pliny, and that
it was probably attached to the o-ovreXsta of Cibyra.
This inscription having been found at Mughla,
Tarmiani is probably the ancient name of this
place.0
At Mughla I purchased a gold coin of Pixodarus,
the only specimen of this piece which I met with
in Caria. It is remarkable that during so long a
residence at Budrum I hardly ever had coins of
the Princes of Caria ottered to me for purchase.
In November, 1855, I had an opportunity of
visiting Marmarice in II. M. S. Medusa. The
following are my notes of this place, and of a
journey thence to Mughla.
Marmarice, the ancient Physkos, is well known
c L. Eoss, Hellenika, i. p. 07, Halle, 184G. Kiepert (Memoir
ueber die Karto von Kleiuasien, p. 77) observes that the Taniiani
mentioned by Livy, xxxiii. 18, are probably the same people.
Descending from the platform, I came to the
foundations of a tower facing west. Part of these
foundations had heen carried away by the fall of
the rock from above. A large chasm, 40' deep,
intervenes between the north and south walls of
this tower.
I could not hear of any antiquities at Mughla,
but Ross discovered here in the house of a Greek
inhabitant a marble pedestal inscribed with a dedi-
cation by Nicholaos, the son of Leon of Rhodes,
to Hermes, Herakles, and the xotvov or community
of the Tarmiani. He supposes that this xotvov was
one of the coi/ceuius noticed by Pliny, and that
it was probably attached to the o-ovreXsta of Cibyra.
This inscription having been found at Mughla,
Tarmiani is probably the ancient name of this
place.0
At Mughla I purchased a gold coin of Pixodarus,
the only specimen of this piece which I met with
in Caria. It is remarkable that during so long a
residence at Budrum I hardly ever had coins of
the Princes of Caria ottered to me for purchase.
In November, 1855, I had an opportunity of
visiting Marmarice in II. M. S. Medusa. The
following are my notes of this place, and of a
journey thence to Mughla.
Marmarice, the ancient Physkos, is well known
c L. Eoss, Hellenika, i. p. 07, Halle, 184G. Kiepert (Memoir
ueber die Karto von Kleiuasien, p. 77) observes that the Taniiani
mentioned by Livy, xxxiii. 18, are probably the same people.