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CHAPTER VII.
VIGNETTES.
Prefixed to the description of the Arch at Mylassa is introduced a Vignette, with the Ivory
Tessera, marked No. 2, having the name of the poet yEschylus inscribed; a circumstance not
hitherto observed on any ticket of the same kind. It is taken from the fourth volume of the
Antiquities of Herculaneum ; in the preface to which is a dissertation on the ancient theatre,
well deserving the attention of the reader. On the same Plate, No. 3, is a Tessera, or ticket of
admission to the eleventh row of those seats in the Theatre, which included the Cavea or pit, and
were placed in the semi-circular or open part of the area. It may be observed in the larger
theatres, as in that of Laodicea, Plate XLIX. that the seats were separated by one, or sometimes
two divisions, broader and higher than the rest. These praecinctiones or K^xikq, together with
the steps for ascending to the seats, which tended to the centre of the circular area, formed the
VIGNETTES.
Prefixed to the description of the Arch at Mylassa is introduced a Vignette, with the Ivory
Tessera, marked No. 2, having the name of the poet yEschylus inscribed; a circumstance not
hitherto observed on any ticket of the same kind. It is taken from the fourth volume of the
Antiquities of Herculaneum ; in the preface to which is a dissertation on the ancient theatre,
well deserving the attention of the reader. On the same Plate, No. 3, is a Tessera, or ticket of
admission to the eleventh row of those seats in the Theatre, which included the Cavea or pit, and
were placed in the semi-circular or open part of the area. It may be observed in the larger
theatres, as in that of Laodicea, Plate XLIX. that the seats were separated by one, or sometimes
two divisions, broader and higher than the rest. These praecinctiones or K^xikq, together with
the steps for ascending to the seats, which tended to the centre of the circular area, formed the