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IONIA. 27
PLATE XXXI.
ELEVATION OF A CORINTHIAN COLUMN STANDING UPON A PIECE OF SOLID
WALL, NOT FAR FROM THE BASEMENT OF THE TEMPLE FORMERLY
DEDICATED TO ROME AND AUGUSTUS.
This column supported a statue; on the shaft is this inscription :
» THE PEOPLE HAVE ERECTED MENANDER SON OF OULIADES, SON OF EUTHYDEMUS,
<« A BENEFACTOR TO HIS COUNTRY, AND DESCENDED FROM BENEFACTORS."
Besides this, two fluted columns of the Ionic Order remained not many years since.
PLATE XXXII.
PARTS AT LARGE OF THE SAME COLUMN.
PLATE XXXIII.
RUINS OF THE CITY OF MYUS OR BAFFI, AND VIEW OF THE LAKE.
" So early as the second century the buildings had been so destroyed, that the only one remain-
ing was a Temple of Bacchus, of white marble. On the left hand is a Theatre hewn in the
mountain, with some mossy remnants of the wall of the Proscenium; the marble seats are removed.
Between the huts and the lake are several terraces, with steps cut, as at Priene. One, by which
our tent stood, was a quadrangular area, edged with marble fragments; and, we conjectured, it
had been the Agora. By another, were stones ornamented with shields of a circular form. But
the principal and most conspicuous ruin is the small Temple of Bacchus, which is seated on an
abrupt rock, with the front only, which is towards the east, accessible. The roof is destroyed.
The Cell is well built, of smooth stone with a brown crust upon it. The Portico was in Antis.
We measured some fragments of it, and regretted that any of the members were missing. It has
been used as a church, and the entrance walled up. The marbles, which lie scattered about, the
broken columns, and mutilated statues, all witness a remote antiquity. We met with some inscrip-
tions, but not legible. The city wall was constructed, like that at Ephesus, with square towers,
PLATE XXXI.
ELEVATION OF A CORINTHIAN COLUMN STANDING UPON A PIECE OF SOLID
WALL, NOT FAR FROM THE BASEMENT OF THE TEMPLE FORMERLY
DEDICATED TO ROME AND AUGUSTUS.
This column supported a statue; on the shaft is this inscription :
» THE PEOPLE HAVE ERECTED MENANDER SON OF OULIADES, SON OF EUTHYDEMUS,
<« A BENEFACTOR TO HIS COUNTRY, AND DESCENDED FROM BENEFACTORS."
Besides this, two fluted columns of the Ionic Order remained not many years since.
PLATE XXXII.
PARTS AT LARGE OF THE SAME COLUMN.
PLATE XXXIII.
RUINS OF THE CITY OF MYUS OR BAFFI, AND VIEW OF THE LAKE.
" So early as the second century the buildings had been so destroyed, that the only one remain-
ing was a Temple of Bacchus, of white marble. On the left hand is a Theatre hewn in the
mountain, with some mossy remnants of the wall of the Proscenium; the marble seats are removed.
Between the huts and the lake are several terraces, with steps cut, as at Priene. One, by which
our tent stood, was a quadrangular area, edged with marble fragments; and, we conjectured, it
had been the Agora. By another, were stones ornamented with shields of a circular form. But
the principal and most conspicuous ruin is the small Temple of Bacchus, which is seated on an
abrupt rock, with the front only, which is towards the east, accessible. The roof is destroyed.
The Cell is well built, of smooth stone with a brown crust upon it. The Portico was in Antis.
We measured some fragments of it, and regretted that any of the members were missing. It has
been used as a church, and the entrance walled up. The marbles, which lie scattered about, the
broken columns, and mutilated statues, all witness a remote antiquity. We met with some inscrip-
tions, but not legible. The city wall was constructed, like that at Ephesus, with square towers,