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 XXVI. Observations on a Greek Sepulchral Monument in thePofle/wn of Maxwell Garthfhore,M.D. F.R.S. and F. A. S. By Taylor Combe, Efq. F. A. S. Read June 7, 1798. THE antient monument, of which I have now the honour to tranfmit to the Society a defcription, was brought into Eng- land about the year 1777 by a gentleman of the name of Turn- bull, who had refided a conliderable time at Smyrna, had travelled through Egypt, and vifited moft of the Grecian cities and iflands. This and other fpecimens of antiquity, chiefly Egyptian, at his death, he bequeathed to Dr. Garthfhore, by whofe indulgence I have been permitted the ufe of them ; but as they were bequeath- ed without any hiftory as to the places from whence they came, or as to the manner in which they were obtained, we can gain no other information concerning them, than what is to be gathered from the antiquities themfelves. It is moft probable, from the very- long refidence of Mr.Turnbull at Smyrna, that the prefent monu- ment was brought from that place ; but as the monument itfelf affords us no clue to guide our opinion, it muft be left a matter of doubt. Sepulchral as well as other antiquities of Rome have ever been regarded as objecls of curiofity by the learned ; but thofe of Greece, in confideration of their much greater rarity, of their referring to times frequently more remote, and recording cuftoms lefs generally known