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APPENDIX.
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blishment forming a series of baths : we found the pipes supplying
the water, and the drains from the rooms ; a stove, with the char-
coal and ashes remaining. There were four or five small rooms,
probably for the various temperatures required in Eastern baths ;
all the floors slightly inclined to a point, at which a drain-pipe
was found. In the largest of these rooms, which had two levels
in the floor, and narrow seats of inlaid marbles on one side, we
found a very perfect mosaic pavement, representing within several
borders of various patterns the subject of " Leda and the Swan:"
the walls of this room had been painted in fresco. Of this bath
you have plans and drawings. On the plain at the foot of the
elevation upon which the city was placed, we disinterred the re-
mains of a mausoleum. In this room, which had vaults beneath,
stood four sarcophagi, raised upon pedestals, forming biers or
places of burial within them. I much regret that these sarco-
phagi were mere fragments, or they would have displayed fine
specimens of the Byzantine age of art. I have collected the frag-
ments of each sarcophagus, and if laid together they will be found
to have points of interest and beauty of composition. The in-
scriptions of this age are very numerous, and the whole of the
many sarcophagi on either side of the city are of this people.
The next period which has left traces is difficult to name with
accuracy; but it shows this site to have been a large Christian
city. Several churches, and one extensive religious establish-
ment, besides many small chapels, are lying in ruins. The whole
of the materials of which these buildings are composed are the
debris of the Greek city. To this people the theatre owes its de-
struction, and the vast walls of defence surrounding the whole
city owe their rise : a part of this fortification is built across the
theatre, and is formed of the seats and sculptured stones taken
from that building. From the total disregard shown for the
Greek buildings,—amongst many other instances, the erecting a
small chapel against the archway,—I should think it probable
that the city, from earthquake or some other cause, must have,
been destroyed and deserted.
In excavating around the base of the cliff above the archway,
we laid bare a continued series of walls of small houses, built up
the side of the hill, and formed of the materials of the Byzantine
503
I BOB1
■' .- n
blishment forming a series of baths : we found the pipes supplying
the water, and the drains from the rooms ; a stove, with the char-
coal and ashes remaining. There were four or five small rooms,
probably for the various temperatures required in Eastern baths ;
all the floors slightly inclined to a point, at which a drain-pipe
was found. In the largest of these rooms, which had two levels
in the floor, and narrow seats of inlaid marbles on one side, we
found a very perfect mosaic pavement, representing within several
borders of various patterns the subject of " Leda and the Swan:"
the walls of this room had been painted in fresco. Of this bath
you have plans and drawings. On the plain at the foot of the
elevation upon which the city was placed, we disinterred the re-
mains of a mausoleum. In this room, which had vaults beneath,
stood four sarcophagi, raised upon pedestals, forming biers or
places of burial within them. I much regret that these sarco-
phagi were mere fragments, or they would have displayed fine
specimens of the Byzantine age of art. I have collected the frag-
ments of each sarcophagus, and if laid together they will be found
to have points of interest and beauty of composition. The in-
scriptions of this age are very numerous, and the whole of the
many sarcophagi on either side of the city are of this people.
The next period which has left traces is difficult to name with
accuracy; but it shows this site to have been a large Christian
city. Several churches, and one extensive religious establish-
ment, besides many small chapels, are lying in ruins. The whole
of the materials of which these buildings are composed are the
debris of the Greek city. To this people the theatre owes its de-
struction, and the vast walls of defence surrounding the whole
city owe their rise : a part of this fortification is built across the
theatre, and is formed of the seats and sculptured stones taken
from that building. From the total disregard shown for the
Greek buildings,—amongst many other instances, the erecting a
small chapel against the archway,—I should think it probable
that the city, from earthquake or some other cause, must have,
been destroyed and deserted.
In excavating around the base of the cliff above the archway,
we laid bare a continued series of walls of small houses, built up
the side of the hill, and formed of the materials of the Byzantine