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CllAP. XXXI.]
HARBOUR OF TEOS.
15
indeed the richness and style of architecture fully equalled,
if it did not surpass, that of the Temple of Bacchus. In
another heap were several gigantic fragments of architraves,
which from their triglyphs and dentils must have belonged
to a Doric building; others also were found in the direction
of the theatre. One of these temples stands in the centre
of an open space, which may have been a forum, or agora.
The cella, although encumbered with fallen remains, may
still be distinctly traced: it is not of great size, but the
style of the ornaments was superior to everything else of
the kind we had seen am on erst the ruins. Here also we
o
discovered several inscriptions ;* and the foundations of
two smaller temples were also visible close by, without the
walls, on the flat ground at the head of the port, one of
which was remarkable for its highly-finished architectural
sculpture and Corinthian capitals, with a vault under the
cella, fourteen feet across from the spring of the arches, but
much encumbered by the fallen roof.
Proceeding from this spot almost due south, between the
marshes and the city wall, we reached the end of the mole
which formed the southern harbour of the Teians, stretch-
ing out to the east. This appears to consist of a massive
wall, built on each side of a natural bank of sand, and is fur-
nished on the inside with several projecting stones terminating
m a ring, to which a rope might be attached to moor the
galleys to the quay. This is evidently the port described
by Livy f as being " ante urbem," into which the Roman
praetor brought his fleet to receive supplies from the Teians,
when he moved from the other harbour called Gerassticum,
" qui a tergo urbis est," and which can be no other than
that of Sighajik, although the entrance is not so narrow as
it is described to be by Livy. A great portion of the har-
bour is filled up with mud carried down by the stream
from the N.N.E.
I endeavoured on one of my visits to the port to ascertain
whether any traces of local elevation or subsidence of the
land, as compared with the sea, could be perceived, but saw
* See Appendix, Nos. 241-250. + Lib- *x*vii. c. 28.
HARBOUR OF TEOS.
15
indeed the richness and style of architecture fully equalled,
if it did not surpass, that of the Temple of Bacchus. In
another heap were several gigantic fragments of architraves,
which from their triglyphs and dentils must have belonged
to a Doric building; others also were found in the direction
of the theatre. One of these temples stands in the centre
of an open space, which may have been a forum, or agora.
The cella, although encumbered with fallen remains, may
still be distinctly traced: it is not of great size, but the
style of the ornaments was superior to everything else of
the kind we had seen am on erst the ruins. Here also we
o
discovered several inscriptions ;* and the foundations of
two smaller temples were also visible close by, without the
walls, on the flat ground at the head of the port, one of
which was remarkable for its highly-finished architectural
sculpture and Corinthian capitals, with a vault under the
cella, fourteen feet across from the spring of the arches, but
much encumbered by the fallen roof.
Proceeding from this spot almost due south, between the
marshes and the city wall, we reached the end of the mole
which formed the southern harbour of the Teians, stretch-
ing out to the east. This appears to consist of a massive
wall, built on each side of a natural bank of sand, and is fur-
nished on the inside with several projecting stones terminating
m a ring, to which a rope might be attached to moor the
galleys to the quay. This is evidently the port described
by Livy f as being " ante urbem," into which the Roman
praetor brought his fleet to receive supplies from the Teians,
when he moved from the other harbour called Gerassticum,
" qui a tergo urbis est," and which can be no other than
that of Sighajik, although the entrance is not so narrow as
it is described to be by Livy. A great portion of the har-
bour is filled up with mud carried down by the stream
from the N.N.E.
I endeavoured on one of my visits to the port to ascertain
whether any traces of local elevation or subsidence of the
land, as compared with the sea, could be perceived, but saw
* See Appendix, Nos. 241-250. + Lib- *x*vii. c. 28.