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RUINS OF SAGALASSUS.
[Chap, xxvrn!
wing of the cavoa is nearly perfect, and forms a very con-
siderable angle, perhaps 35°, with that of the scena.
The point of a hill 100 yards S. by E. from the theatre has
been crowned with a handsome fluted column, the fragments
of which, 3 ft. 9 ins. in diameter, are scattered about on
all sides ; the base, which measured 6 ft. square, over-
turned and displaced, was also lying near. The situation
was very commanding, and from its vicinity to the Necro-
polis it was probably a sepulchral monument. On a rocky
hill further east the ground was covered with sarcophagi,
all of them broken open or displaced, with their covers
lying near them. Some few of these tombs, excavated in
the solid rock, had been afterwards covered with a stone
slab; some were richly ornamented with garlands and fes-
toons, some with the caput bovis, and others with a lion's
head.
Proceeding S.W. into the town I passed numerous heaps
of blocks of stone, marking the sites of ruined buildings,
and reached a spot surrounded on all sides except the south
by mounds or low hills supported by walls and terraces, and
on which once stood temples and other public buildings.
It was evidently an agora or forum; in many places the
ancient pavement was still visible, strewed with the broken
shafts of fluted columns and pedestals intended for sta-
tues ; I saw no inscriptions, but it appears to have been
surrounded with a colonnade of fluted columns. On the
south a handsome flight of marble steps leads to a wide
street, marked on each side by an avenue of pedestals,
through which the road, a kind of Via sacra, passes to the
ruins of a beautiful temple situated on a projecting point
of rock. On one of these pedestals the inscription No. 189
has been preserved, by which we are enabled to fix with
certainty the name of the city. The temple above men-
tioned is prostrate, but every part of it seems to bo
there, and it is still beautiful in its fall; the deeply
fluted columns, the rich architrave, mouldings, and cor-
nices, the graceful Corinthian capitals of the columns,
RUINS OF SAGALASSUS.
[Chap, xxvrn!
wing of the cavoa is nearly perfect, and forms a very con-
siderable angle, perhaps 35°, with that of the scena.
The point of a hill 100 yards S. by E. from the theatre has
been crowned with a handsome fluted column, the fragments
of which, 3 ft. 9 ins. in diameter, are scattered about on
all sides ; the base, which measured 6 ft. square, over-
turned and displaced, was also lying near. The situation
was very commanding, and from its vicinity to the Necro-
polis it was probably a sepulchral monument. On a rocky
hill further east the ground was covered with sarcophagi,
all of them broken open or displaced, with their covers
lying near them. Some few of these tombs, excavated in
the solid rock, had been afterwards covered with a stone
slab; some were richly ornamented with garlands and fes-
toons, some with the caput bovis, and others with a lion's
head.
Proceeding S.W. into the town I passed numerous heaps
of blocks of stone, marking the sites of ruined buildings,
and reached a spot surrounded on all sides except the south
by mounds or low hills supported by walls and terraces, and
on which once stood temples and other public buildings.
It was evidently an agora or forum; in many places the
ancient pavement was still visible, strewed with the broken
shafts of fluted columns and pedestals intended for sta-
tues ; I saw no inscriptions, but it appears to have been
surrounded with a colonnade of fluted columns. On the
south a handsome flight of marble steps leads to a wide
street, marked on each side by an avenue of pedestals,
through which the road, a kind of Via sacra, passes to the
ruins of a beautiful temple situated on a projecting point
of rock. On one of these pedestals the inscription No. 189
has been preserved, by which we are enabled to fix with
certainty the name of the city. The temple above men-
tioned is prostrate, but every part of it seems to bo
there, and it is still beautiful in its fall; the deeply
fluted columns, the rich architrave, mouldings, and cor-
nices, the graceful Corinthian capitals of the columns,