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PATARA.
have been marked by a disposition in private individuals to assist in carrying out public designs.
From an inscription upon the screen wall, connecting the stage with the cavea of the theatre,
we learn that Qiiintus Veilius Titianus, contributed some substantial portions of the structure:
he built the proscenium from its foundations, and jointly with his daughter added a whole row
of the stone seats, being the eleventh of the second diazoma, and the vela, which were possibly
the flanking or screen walls, upon one of which the dedicatory inscription alluded to is engraved.
His daughter Veilia Procla of Patara proceeded with the same liberality but with a more definite
object. She of herself added the decorations of the proscenium, the periacti, the anastasis of the
figures and statues, together with the pavement or flooring of the stage: and thus having com-
pleted her work, so far as to enable the dramas to be exhibited, she recorded and dedicated the
whole in the joint names of her father and herself. The upper range of seats however with the
surrounding galleries at their summit were then and perhaps remained for ever incomplete ; the
word which is much obliterated, but which we have written xsqitzxro would, if justly so presented,
allude to the pair of revolving prisms, which flanked the stage, and upon which a change of
scenery was produced; they would be worked by means concealed beneath the floor of the stage
in a space, to which the door of access was immediately under the inscription.*
The view given in Plate II. compared with the Plan in Plate I. shows the insulated character of
the hill, against which the theatre has been hollowed. If the level around it was ever covered by
the sea, we must assign a very remote date to that possibility: but the lesser elevations adjoining
the port may have been islands even as late as when the Pharos, marked I., guided the mariners
into the harbour. A low ridge only separates the Xanthian plain from the levels of Patara. The
Pharos may be of an earlier date than the Roman Empire ; it appears to have stood on one of the
moles, which formed the entrance of the port, but which have long since been covered by the accu-
mulated sands, and are far within the present beach. The monument consists of six or eight
gradations rising from a square basis of about seventy-five feet, and was probably crowned by a
columnar erection bearing a light.
In front of the theatre some extensive remains, probably of baths, open upon a street which
joins another running at right angles from the triple arch, which formed the entrance into the city
from the north. On the opposite side of the port is a public granary marked F. It is of the
* The date of the Inscription must have been about the
year 145 of our sera. A facsimile of it is given in PI. XII.
In the cursive character it is as follows:
AvroKparopi, Kaiaapi, dtov 'ASpiavov vi<j>, Oeov Tpaiavov
YiapdiKOV vlwvip, Oeov Nepova kyyovit), T/rw AiXlw ASpiavy
'Avtwvuvo) aeHaaru, sixnUel, apy^iepei fxeyiaTOj, S^ap^tKJjc
k£,ova'ia.Q to i, vTraTiv to S, TraTtpt TraTpicog, Kai ueoig
5 a£aaTo"iQ, Kai toIq iraTpwoig Oeoig, Kai Ty yXvKVTary
iraTpi'Si tti JlaTaptojv ttoXu, ttj firiTpowoXei tov
Avk'iwv iQvovQ, OvuXla Ko. OvsiX'iov TiTiavov Qvyarrip
IIpo/cAa HaTaptg aveOriKev,
Kai KaOdpwatv to te irpoaK^viov o KaTtaKtvaaev
10 £K OefieX'iwv o TTaTTJp aiiTrig Ko. OveiXiog TiTiavog
Kai tov tv avTb) Koafiov Kai ra nepi |^a/eraij Kai Ti)v twv
avSpiavTwv Kai ayaX/xaToiv avaaTaaiv
Kai Ti)v tov Aoya'ov KaTaaKivrjv Kai
irXaKwaiv, a siro'iriaev avrrj, to Se tvSiKaTov
10 tov tivTipov ZiaZ,u)fiaTOQ \%adpov Kai Ta 6»)Xa
tov dtarpov KaraaKtvaaOavTa vtto ts tov
TraTpog avTtjg Kai vtt awrrjc
irpoavtTtoi} Kai TraptSoOri KaTci Ta vtto ttjc KpoTtffT/jc
bouArJe \pr\fyiafxtva.
N. B. These four bracketted letters in the eleventh line
are so doubtful, that the words may possibly be to 7r£|o{ avTo,
" the parts about the proscenium."
PATARA.
have been marked by a disposition in private individuals to assist in carrying out public designs.
From an inscription upon the screen wall, connecting the stage with the cavea of the theatre,
we learn that Qiiintus Veilius Titianus, contributed some substantial portions of the structure:
he built the proscenium from its foundations, and jointly with his daughter added a whole row
of the stone seats, being the eleventh of the second diazoma, and the vela, which were possibly
the flanking or screen walls, upon one of which the dedicatory inscription alluded to is engraved.
His daughter Veilia Procla of Patara proceeded with the same liberality but with a more definite
object. She of herself added the decorations of the proscenium, the periacti, the anastasis of the
figures and statues, together with the pavement or flooring of the stage: and thus having com-
pleted her work, so far as to enable the dramas to be exhibited, she recorded and dedicated the
whole in the joint names of her father and herself. The upper range of seats however with the
surrounding galleries at their summit were then and perhaps remained for ever incomplete ; the
word which is much obliterated, but which we have written xsqitzxro would, if justly so presented,
allude to the pair of revolving prisms, which flanked the stage, and upon which a change of
scenery was produced; they would be worked by means concealed beneath the floor of the stage
in a space, to which the door of access was immediately under the inscription.*
The view given in Plate II. compared with the Plan in Plate I. shows the insulated character of
the hill, against which the theatre has been hollowed. If the level around it was ever covered by
the sea, we must assign a very remote date to that possibility: but the lesser elevations adjoining
the port may have been islands even as late as when the Pharos, marked I., guided the mariners
into the harbour. A low ridge only separates the Xanthian plain from the levels of Patara. The
Pharos may be of an earlier date than the Roman Empire ; it appears to have stood on one of the
moles, which formed the entrance of the port, but which have long since been covered by the accu-
mulated sands, and are far within the present beach. The monument consists of six or eight
gradations rising from a square basis of about seventy-five feet, and was probably crowned by a
columnar erection bearing a light.
In front of the theatre some extensive remains, probably of baths, open upon a street which
joins another running at right angles from the triple arch, which formed the entrance into the city
from the north. On the opposite side of the port is a public granary marked F. It is of the
* The date of the Inscription must have been about the
year 145 of our sera. A facsimile of it is given in PI. XII.
In the cursive character it is as follows:
AvroKparopi, Kaiaapi, dtov 'ASpiavov vi<j>, Oeov Tpaiavov
YiapdiKOV vlwvip, Oeov Nepova kyyovit), T/rw AiXlw ASpiavy
'Avtwvuvo) aeHaaru, sixnUel, apy^iepei fxeyiaTOj, S^ap^tKJjc
k£,ova'ia.Q to i, vTraTiv to S, TraTtpt TraTpicog, Kai ueoig
5 a£aaTo"iQ, Kai toIq iraTpwoig Oeoig, Kai Ty yXvKVTary
iraTpi'Si tti JlaTaptojv ttoXu, ttj firiTpowoXei tov
Avk'iwv iQvovQ, OvuXla Ko. OvsiX'iov TiTiavov Qvyarrip
IIpo/cAa HaTaptg aveOriKev,
Kai KaOdpwatv to te irpoaK^viov o KaTtaKtvaaev
10 £K OefieX'iwv o TTaTTJp aiiTrig Ko. OveiXiog TiTiavog
Kai tov tv avTb) Koafiov Kai ra nepi |^a/eraij Kai Ti)v twv
avSpiavTwv Kai ayaX/xaToiv avaaTaaiv
Kai Ti)v tov Aoya'ov KaTaaKivrjv Kai
irXaKwaiv, a siro'iriaev avrrj, to Se tvSiKaTov
10 tov tivTipov ZiaZ,u)fiaTOQ \%adpov Kai Ta 6»)Xa
tov dtarpov KaraaKtvaaOavTa vtto ts tov
TraTpog avTtjg Kai vtt awrrjc
irpoavtTtoi} Kai TraptSoOri KaTci Ta vtto ttjc KpoTtffT/jc
bouArJe \pr\fyiafxtva.
N. B. These four bracketted letters in the eleventh line
are so doubtful, that the words may possibly be to 7r£|o{ avTo,
" the parts about the proscenium."