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PAMPHTLIA.
reversed inclination of the vessel, is used for pouring out the
water more rapidly, the drinking-pipe admitting the air to
supply the place of the fluid poured off. The heat of the
sun sometimes causing cracks in this wider spout, iron rings
are added to repair it; occasionally there is left on the oppo-
site side of the vessel, perhaps for ornament, to match the
drinking-pipe, a solid piece of the wood. In these various
forms the Etruscan vase may be plainly recognised; which
was the original, I venture not to decide. A shallow wooden
bowl is often used as a cup, into which a portion of the
water is poured; and as this is presented by a Greek female,
with the vase in her hand, I can give it no other name than
the patera of the ancients.
April 10th.—I this morning paid a visit of some hours to
the ruins of Side, which were about a mile from the spot
where my tent was pitched last night; they are far inferior
in scale, date and age to any I have before seen; the Greek
style is scarcely to be traced in any of the ruins, but the
Roman is visible in every part; in few buildings, except the
theatre, are the stones even hewn, the cement being wholly
trusted to for their support. The walls are very slight, and
of a period late in Roman history; but few columns or
traces of temples remain. I found a piece of a cornice, or
tablet, with a small galley carved in a rude style upon it.
The theatre has been fine, but is now in ruin, except the
seats, which are in tolerable preservation. The whole of
the area and lower parts being filled with a wood of trees,
it is difficult to judge of the size, but I should think it smaller
than three or four which I have seen within the last few
weeks. There being no village near, nor any cultivation of
the ground in the neighbourhood, the hidden relics and
coins will remain for future times to discover. The rambling
dwellers in tents could of course give me no information,
except that lime was obtained there. I found several kilns,
which are supplied from the cornices and capitals of columns,
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PAMPHTLIA.
reversed inclination of the vessel, is used for pouring out the
water more rapidly, the drinking-pipe admitting the air to
supply the place of the fluid poured off. The heat of the
sun sometimes causing cracks in this wider spout, iron rings
are added to repair it; occasionally there is left on the oppo-
site side of the vessel, perhaps for ornament, to match the
drinking-pipe, a solid piece of the wood. In these various
forms the Etruscan vase may be plainly recognised; which
was the original, I venture not to decide. A shallow wooden
bowl is often used as a cup, into which a portion of the
water is poured; and as this is presented by a Greek female,
with the vase in her hand, I can give it no other name than
the patera of the ancients.
April 10th.—I this morning paid a visit of some hours to
the ruins of Side, which were about a mile from the spot
where my tent was pitched last night; they are far inferior
in scale, date and age to any I have before seen; the Greek
style is scarcely to be traced in any of the ruins, but the
Roman is visible in every part; in few buildings, except the
theatre, are the stones even hewn, the cement being wholly
trusted to for their support. The walls are very slight, and
of a period late in Roman history; but few columns or
traces of temples remain. I found a piece of a cornice, or
tablet, with a small galley carved in a rude style upon it.
The theatre has been fine, but is now in ruin, except the
seats, which are in tolerable preservation. The whole of
the area and lower parts being filled with a wood of trees,
it is difficult to judge of the size, but I should think it smaller
than three or four which I have seen within the last few
weeks. There being no village near, nor any cultivation of
the ground in the neighbourhood, the hidden relics and
coins will remain for future times to discover. The rambling
dwellers in tents could of course give me no information,
except that lime was obtained there. I found several kilns,
which are supplied from the cornices and capitals of columns,
hMm
p
11" i
■
»«W