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12 ON A MS. HIST. OF CANDIA, BY ONOKIO BELLI.
The following inscriptions were copied by Belli among the
ruins.*
(See Boeckh's Corpus Inscr. Gr. Nos. 2565, 2564, and 2602.)
The following is unpublished :—
TET . . A
2ARMA . . .
A . tfAAOY
SOYAIIIK
The Smaller Theatre.
The theatres of Hierapytna are highly remarkable from the
peculiarity of their design. The smaller theatre, of which
many of the seats remain, measuring two feet in width, was
adorned with two orders of columns of the whitest marble, five
quarters in diameter, (17 inches Eng.) of the Ionic order. The
capitals and entablatures were of the most exquisite workman-
ship, many of which have been sent to Venice by His Excel-
lency. (The Proveditor-General.) The statues (of the scene)
were of stucco: these I found entire on excavating a trench
along the front, but in endeavouring to remove them they fell
to powder. Most of the columns have been destroyed by fire.
Those of the lower order were ten feet high. (11 feet 4 in. Eng.)
The columns of the upper order were one foot in diameter and
nine feet in height. The columns of the portico behind the
scene corresponded in size to those of the lower order, but
they are of granite, (pietra dura,) like the two columns at
Venice.-]' These columns, which are so numerous here and at
Gortyna, must have been brought from Egypt, for there is no
stone of this description in the island of Candia: indeed the
building stone is very indifferent, being even softer than that
of Soizzo and Creazzo. Many of the seats of the theatre re-
main in place: they measure two Vicentine feet in width.
* Among other remains are described by Cyriacus Pizzicolius Ancon. two
statues, on the pedestals of which were the following inscriptions. (Cod. No.
5237, Bibl. Vat.) See Boeckh, C. 1. Nos. 2581 and 2582.
f In front of S. Mark's (?).
The following inscriptions were copied by Belli among the
ruins.*
(See Boeckh's Corpus Inscr. Gr. Nos. 2565, 2564, and 2602.)
The following is unpublished :—
TET . . A
2ARMA . . .
A . tfAAOY
SOYAIIIK
The Smaller Theatre.
The theatres of Hierapytna are highly remarkable from the
peculiarity of their design. The smaller theatre, of which
many of the seats remain, measuring two feet in width, was
adorned with two orders of columns of the whitest marble, five
quarters in diameter, (17 inches Eng.) of the Ionic order. The
capitals and entablatures were of the most exquisite workman-
ship, many of which have been sent to Venice by His Excel-
lency. (The Proveditor-General.) The statues (of the scene)
were of stucco: these I found entire on excavating a trench
along the front, but in endeavouring to remove them they fell
to powder. Most of the columns have been destroyed by fire.
Those of the lower order were ten feet high. (11 feet 4 in. Eng.)
The columns of the upper order were one foot in diameter and
nine feet in height. The columns of the portico behind the
scene corresponded in size to those of the lower order, but
they are of granite, (pietra dura,) like the two columns at
Venice.-]' These columns, which are so numerous here and at
Gortyna, must have been brought from Egypt, for there is no
stone of this description in the island of Candia: indeed the
building stone is very indifferent, being even softer than that
of Soizzo and Creazzo. Many of the seats of the theatre re-
main in place: they measure two Vicentine feet in width.
* Among other remains are described by Cyriacus Pizzicolius Ancon. two
statues, on the pedestals of which were the following inscriptions. (Cod. No.
5237, Bibl. Vat.) See Boeckh, C. 1. Nos. 2581 and 2582.
f In front of S. Mark's (?).