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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(SEPTEMBER, 1887.
Thug the dinárs belong to the Sultans of two Maskhat. (vi.) Year 1603 (1292), year of the separate dynasties, and are separated by a con- dragon (i.e. the fifth of the cycle of twelve siderable space of time.
years.) This is the grave of the maiden Turk. (6) The Christian Cemetery near the town of (vii.) In the year 1618 (1307); the year of the ram. Pishpak (in the district of the Seven Rivera) and This is the grave of Julia, an amiable woman, the Valley of the Cha, by N. Pantusov.- A lot of wife of the Chorepiscopus Jokhanan (John). gravestones have been found here, although the (viii.) The year 1627 (1316), year of the eclipse, cemetery has long been desecrated and ploughed in Turkish the dragon. This is the grave of Shalih, up in parte. No traces of an enclosure are to be a celebrated exegette and preacher who made all found, but there are perhaps remains of a church the monasteries bright with his light, the son of in two mud walls still standing. The number of the ezegetés Peter. He was celebrated for his stones, as far as is yet ascertained, amounts to 611, wiadom: his voice was loud as a trumpet. May but many are probably sunk in the earth and are our God unite his illuminated soul with the saints overgrown with grass. Some of the tombstones and fathers; may all glory come to him." (Upon have been sent to Russia. No traditions of the this the author truly remarks that we can see origin of the cemetery appear among the present that the stories of the Catholic Missionaries of natives of the country. There is also another the thirteenth century about the ignorance of cemetery of the same kind near the city of the Nestorian priesthood are not true.) (ix.) In Tuqmaq in the same district. Some of the the year 1629 (1318), the year of the horse (the graves in the Pishpak cemetery have been opened seventh of the cycle of twelve years). This is and skeletons found.
the grave of Kutluk Tirim, a believer. (1.) In the (6) Introductory Remarks on the Syrian In- year 1835 (1324). This is the grave of Lascriptions found as above in the district of kuids or Kuira, believer. (..) In the year Semirechia, by Dr. Chwolson. For deciphering 1638 (1327), the year of the hare, in Turkish these the author had the following materials :- puchin. This is the grave of Yuhanan A.... ki (1). Three inscriptions in their original form. Akpåsh, son of Tzaliva, the superior of the church. The stones are deposited in the Hermitage at (xii) In the year 1644 (1333); the year of the St. Petersburg. (2). Sixteen inscriptions copied by fowl, in Turkish tagalou. This is the grave of photography. (3). Eight very poor copies, executed Sandayuk, the pupil of Patzak-tekin, of the by people unaoquainted with Syriac. The deci- young girl Mariam, the boy Puaava (tza)ga (P) pherment of the inscriptions was therefore very Musurkan, and Likta-atai (P). (.) In the difficult. They are written in Syro-Nestorian year 1645 (1334), the year of the mouse, in letters, but the writer met with forms which he | Turkish sitakan. This is the grave of Sandar (P) had never seen before. Moreover, he found two Yukai. (xiv.) In the year 1649 (1938). This is letters which do not belong to the Syriao the grave of the priest Nestoris (Nestor) the son alphabet, but these oocurred in Turkish words, of Mengkutenesh, a believer. (IV.) In the year of which there are many. In these he was 1635 (P), in Turkish sitzkan () (i.e. year of the helped by the eminent Turkish scholar Radlov. mouse, first of the oyole of twelve years.) This The inscriptions are written round the repre- iš the grave of the priest Toli-kutluk. (The sentation of a Cross. Dr. Chwolson then proceeds Turkish proper name Toli-kutluk signifies 'he to go through the inscriptions :-(i.) In the year whose path in life is prosperous") (xvi.) This is 1169(=858 of the Saljuqi era). This is the grave the grave of the believer Kumush. (Kumush of Mengkutenesh, a believer. (i.) In the year = silver,' and is here the name of a woman.) 1222(=911).) The little boy Tekin. (Tekin is (xvii.) This is the grave of the youth Aimangu. a Turkish proper name, which is often met with). (Iviii.) This is the grave of Tolutan Kush. (iü.) In the year 1578 ( 1267), that is, the tanatz. (The last name, which has no meaning hare i.e. the year of the hare, the fourth year of in Turki, the writer thinks may be a Syriac Turkish cycle of twelve years). This is the grave transcription of Constantia) (xix.) The house of Shah Malik Periodevt (i. e, periodeutes, one of rest of Keritlug Jivarjis (George). (IX.) This who was sent round to visit the churches) son of is the grave of the priest Jivarjis (George) Jivarjis (George) Altun. (This last word the Kbi...& (P). (xxi.) This is the grave author is unable to decipher; he thinks it is a of Kutluk Sirior, (In the year 431 A.D. the proper name). (iv) In the year 1600 ( = 1289), teaching of the Nestorians was placed under year of the ox (1.e. 2nd year of the cycle). Jivarjis anathema, and they took refuge in Syria and espe(George) tho priest, superior of the church, illus- cially in Persia. They had a celebrated school trious. (v.) In the year 1600 (=1289,) year at Edessa, but it was closed in 489 by order of of the ox. This is the grave of the priest the Emperor Zeno.)
