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IONIA. 31
PLATE XLVI.
PLAN OF THE THEATRE AT MILETUS, SHEWING THE DISPOSITION OF
THE SEATS.
PLATE XLVII.
ORNAMENTS BELONGING TO THE THEATRE, AND PARTS AT LARGE.
In the first Volume of this work, may be seen some particulars descriptive of the plain through
which the Menander takes its course, with a view of the country from the Theatre, in the first
Plate of the third Chapter.
A view of the Theatre in its present state, forms the last Vignette of this work.
PLATE XLVIII.
VIEW OF THE STADIUM AT LAODICEA.
ic This building was circular at each end, about one thousand feet in extent; having twenty-three
seats still remaining, hollowed out of the side of the hill. The entrance from without is choked
up, except a small aperture at which a glimmering light enters. The soil has risen above the
imposts of the interior arch. This has an inscription on the mouldings in large characters in
Greek, which may be thus translated:
" TO THE EMPEROR TITUS CAESAR AUGUSTUS VESPASIAN, SEVEN TIMES CONSUL, SON
" OF THE EMPEROR THE GOD VESPASIAN; AND TO THE PEOPLE. NICOSTRATUS
" THE YOUNGER, SON OF LYCIAS, SON OF NICOSTRATUS, DEDICATED......
" AT HIS OWN EXPENCE; NICOSTRATUS......HIS HEIR HAVING COMPLETED
" WHAT REMAINED OF THE WORK, AND MARCUS ULPIUS TRAJANUS THE PRO-
" CONSUL HAVING CONSECRATED IT."
The seventh consulate of Vespasian falls on the seventy-ninth year of the Christian aera, and the
consulship of Trajan on the eighty-second. Twelve years were consumed in completing this
structure. By another ruin is a pedestal with an inscription, which will illustrate that on the
arch. It relates to the same family, and to the two benefactors.
PLATE XLVI.
PLAN OF THE THEATRE AT MILETUS, SHEWING THE DISPOSITION OF
THE SEATS.
PLATE XLVII.
ORNAMENTS BELONGING TO THE THEATRE, AND PARTS AT LARGE.
In the first Volume of this work, may be seen some particulars descriptive of the plain through
which the Menander takes its course, with a view of the country from the Theatre, in the first
Plate of the third Chapter.
A view of the Theatre in its present state, forms the last Vignette of this work.
PLATE XLVIII.
VIEW OF THE STADIUM AT LAODICEA.
ic This building was circular at each end, about one thousand feet in extent; having twenty-three
seats still remaining, hollowed out of the side of the hill. The entrance from without is choked
up, except a small aperture at which a glimmering light enters. The soil has risen above the
imposts of the interior arch. This has an inscription on the mouldings in large characters in
Greek, which may be thus translated:
" TO THE EMPEROR TITUS CAESAR AUGUSTUS VESPASIAN, SEVEN TIMES CONSUL, SON
" OF THE EMPEROR THE GOD VESPASIAN; AND TO THE PEOPLE. NICOSTRATUS
" THE YOUNGER, SON OF LYCIAS, SON OF NICOSTRATUS, DEDICATED......
" AT HIS OWN EXPENCE; NICOSTRATUS......HIS HEIR HAVING COMPLETED
" WHAT REMAINED OF THE WORK, AND MARCUS ULPIUS TRAJANUS THE PRO-
" CONSUL HAVING CONSECRATED IT."
The seventh consulate of Vespasian falls on the seventy-ninth year of the Christian aera, and the
consulship of Trajan on the eighty-second. Twelve years were consumed in completing this
structure. By another ruin is a pedestal with an inscription, which will illustrate that on the
arch. It relates to the same family, and to the two benefactors.