Fellows, Charles: Travels and researches in Asia Minor, more particularly in the province of Lycia (London, 1852)

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April 30th.—Yesterday I travelled thirty-two miles ; to-
day I have only completed twenty-four, bringing me to this
village, Baffy, near the southern end of the lake of the same
name. About eight miles on my journey today I saw the
ruins of Labranda, near the modern village of Iakly. The
only conspicuous building of the place is a beautiful temple
of the Corinthian order, but I think not of the finest age:
its situation is by no means good, which is rarely the case
with the temples of the early Greeks: it stands in a recess
in the hills, and is consequently not seen without approach-
ing close to it. There are twelve fluted columns, and four
not fluted, but apparently prepared for this ornamental
finish. Other columns lying on the ground are reeded, and
yet are evidently for the same temple. From several fea-
tures about it, I should fancy that the temple had never been
-completed. The symmetry of the fluted columns is much
disturbed by a kind of panel or tablet, not let in, but left
uncut, projecting above the fluting. On each tablet is an



inscription. I copied two from those on the columns at the
back or west end, which were the easiest of access. The
contents of the two are in effect the same*.

* The following is the translation of one :—" Menecrates, son of
Menecrates, the chief physician of the city, wearing a wreath, provided
this column with its base and capital in memory of his daughter,
Tryphsenete, herself also wearing a wreath, and being a director of the
Gymnasium."

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