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is plaited round her head, and in one hand she has a patera,
in the other a glass or cup held to the mouth. I cannot
explain the design of the groups on any of the four sides,
of which the centres scarcely seemed to form parts, although
each side is in a single bordered compartment. The figures,
which are about three feet high, are well executed in white
marble. The compartments, about nine feet in length, form
the top of the tomb, and are raised nearly twenty feet from
the ground upon a square pedestal of grey stone, and roofed
with two flat stones of a similar material. There is no in-
scription on this tomb.
Close by this is another similar tomb, of the same dimen-
sions, entirely covered with the singular characters used
in this city. In the walls of the acropolis a great number
of beautifully wrought marbles are built in as materials,
without any regard to their elegant Greek sculpture. Lions,
warriors, chariots, and horses are to be traced in many frag-
ments, and birds, like our game-cocks or pheasants, fighting.
On the site of a temple of rather small dimensions lay a
pretty frieze, about ten or twelve feet long and one in width,
representing a series of small dancing figures with flying
drapery; not less than fifteen of these were remaining*.
This temple, standing upon the brow of a hill, and six or
seven others which may still be traced along the same cliff,
must have produced an exquisitely beautiful effect.
A sketch of the cottage occupied by the peasantry in this
part of the country, will show that scale alone is wanting
to make it the temple of the former inhabitants ; the tombs
cut in the rocks in successive ages are also precisely similar
in architectural design.
* Around this spot were found the sculptured blocks which are
now in the British Museum, and known as the " Ionic Trophy Monu-
ment :" a full account of this will be given in a subsequent part of this
work.
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174
LTCIA.
is plaited round her head, and in one hand she has a patera,
in the other a glass or cup held to the mouth. I cannot
explain the design of the groups on any of the four sides,
of which the centres scarcely seemed to form parts, although
each side is in a single bordered compartment. The figures,
which are about three feet high, are well executed in white
marble. The compartments, about nine feet in length, form
the top of the tomb, and are raised nearly twenty feet from
the ground upon a square pedestal of grey stone, and roofed
with two flat stones of a similar material. There is no in-
scription on this tomb.
Close by this is another similar tomb, of the same dimen-
sions, entirely covered with the singular characters used
in this city. In the walls of the acropolis a great number
of beautifully wrought marbles are built in as materials,
without any regard to their elegant Greek sculpture. Lions,
warriors, chariots, and horses are to be traced in many frag-
ments, and birds, like our game-cocks or pheasants, fighting.
On the site of a temple of rather small dimensions lay a
pretty frieze, about ten or twelve feet long and one in width,
representing a series of small dancing figures with flying
drapery; not less than fifteen of these were remaining*.
This temple, standing upon the brow of a hill, and six or
seven others which may still be traced along the same cliff,
must have produced an exquisitely beautiful effect.
A sketch of the cottage occupied by the peasantry in this
part of the country, will show that scale alone is wanting
to make it the temple of the former inhabitants ; the tombs
cut in the rocks in successive ages are also precisely similar
in architectural design.
* Around this spot were found the sculptured blocks which are
now in the British Museum, and known as the " Ionic Trophy Monu-
ment :" a full account of this will be given in a subsequent part of this
work.
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