Newton, Charles T. [Editor]; Pullan, Richard P. [Editor]: A history of discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae (Band 2, Teil 2) (London, 1863)

GREEK INSCRIPTIONS. 737

\oifita jiov u\_fi]a? ra[vi]ra rbv ttoiovvtu? koi avrb[y
Kul vvv ku\ Tci &y[_ys]vri? [to]5 cnravra, t/j.ol Si
cijcna /cat £A£[i)]0£[pa] ?) ira[y]Twg.

In this inscription a female, whose name is not
given, dedicates to the infernal deities the person
who stole her bracelet, o-Tra-raXv]. She, in like
manner, devotes any one who has defrauded her
with false weights. A third dedication helow is
not to be clearly deciphered.

1. 1. At the commencement of this line I read
avispm, because there would be hardly room for
avuTi$r)iAt. My reason for reading xputya is that the
A given in the facsimile before €MON is perfectly
clear; and that on the left of this letter are two
vertical strokes, the ends of two letters now broken
away. After rv airioXza-a we might expect to find
h> roig xrproig, Xwr^bls, or olxoig; hut the fragment
of a letter at the commencement of 1. 2 seems to
have been A, M or A.

1. 3. xo[Ai<ra.[j.svoig to xo[xio-t{,(jv. The plural here is
difficult. To whom does the phrase refer ?

1. 5. jt/.r; a.7root6avTi 02 Aajxaroog xa) K.o6pag ....
xa), eiiroo 7rp[a]#?), svSu[xiov sarm Aafxarpog xa) Koupa£.
The construction is not clear; for, if the words
Aafxarpog xa) Koupag, 1. 7, are governed by evSvrxiov
so-tco, then the previous genitives Aafxarpog xa)
KoCpag, 1. 5, arc left without any word to govern
them, and vice versa. The sense seems to be, " in
case he do not restore, [let him be the slave] of
Demeter, &c.; and if he he already sold anywhere,
let this be a care to Demeter, &c."

I. 8. £*' TO) tt'Ksov l^sTsura ivaoa tov <rrah\xdV, " if I
have paid any one more than was due for the weight
which I asked for."

II. 3 F