given quite correctly. It should be Gaanuiph instead of Gaaniph. This sepulchre is cut in black
basaltic rock, and has some broken sarcophagi remaining inside. On a round fragment of a column,
near this side, is the inscription given below, (fig. 4.) The upper part is the farewell of surviving relatives
to the daughter of SEMLACHUS. The lower part, for whomsoever intended,—“and thou also farewell,”—carries with it a touch of nature that still affects the heart, after the lapse of many centuries.
The mausoleums and sepulchres at the opposite end of the city were even more numerous, many having Greek inscriptions upon them.
But the theatre is the most remarkable of all the objects of antiquity,—so
perfect, with its rows of seats complete, surrounded by numerous public edifices and lines of columns; and then commanding from those seats a large view of the beautiful Lake of Tiberias, and of the grand mountains which enclose it, as a frame to the picture.