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Antiquities of Ionia (Band 2) — London, 1797

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28 IONIA.

and is still standing, except towards the water. It runs up the mountain's slope so far as to be in
some places hardly discernible. Without the city are the ccemeteries of its early inhabitants;
graves cut in the rock, of all sizes suited to the human stature at different ages, with innumerable
flat stones, which served as lids. Some are yet covered, and many open, and, by the lake, filled
with water. The lids are overgrown with a short, dry, brown moss, their very aspect evincing
old age." (Chandler, p. 16 5.)

PLATES XXXIV. XXXV.

PLAN OF THE TEMPLE AT MYUS, AND PARTS AT LARGE.

PLATE XXXVI.
PLAN AND SECTION OF A THEATRE AT STRATONICEA.

" The site of this village is strewed with marble fragments; some shafts of columns are standing,
single ; one with a capital on it. By a cottage we found two, with a pilaster, supporting an
entablature, but enveloped in thick vines and trees. In the side of the hill is the Theatre, with
the seats and ruins of the Proscenium; among which are pedestals of statues; one inscribed, and
recording a citizen of great merit and magnificence. Above it is a marble heap; and the whole
building is overgrown with moss bushes and trees. Without the village, on the opposite side, are
broken arches, with pieces of massy wall, and sarcophagi." (Chandler, p. 193.)

PLATES XXXVII. XXXVIII.

FRAGMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE CHIEFLY BELONGING TO THE THEATRE,

PLATE XXXIX.
VIEW OF A GYMNASIUM AT EPHESUS.

This edifice is situated without the eastern wall of the city, not far distant from it, and at the
bottom of the southern side of mount Prion. The north-west angle of the building penetrates
several feet into the side of the mountain, which gradually slopes down the north and west fronts.
 
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