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HOLY LAND, AND CYPRUS. 59
hundred, I copied five; two were immediately under the
figures, the other three are amongst the easiest to be made
out *.
At a short distance north are the remains of a small tem-
ple f, consisting of six beautifully finished columns with ca-
pitals. Two of them, facing the north, are engaged in a wall
two-thirds of their height, forming a gateway. Their capitals
are heads of Isis, supporting a plinth, on which monolithic
temples are sculptured. The other four, two on the west
and two on the east, are also engaged in a wall, half their
height. The capitals vary, but are of the lotus form: the
opposites of each end are alike. Those to the south angles
of the east and west sides have the grape and wheat-ear in
relief under their volutes. In the west side there is a small
doorway. The walls, in which the columns are engaged,
have a cornice. The columns stand on circular bases, and
the foundation of the whole is partly seen. The architraves,
entablature, die, and part of the cornice, remain. The shafts
are about three feet in diameter, and the distance between
them about ten feet. The north front is thirty feet, the east
and west thirty-six. At the base, two or three symbolic
* See Greek inscriptions at the end.
t In the description of this temple, p. 405, in Walpole's Memoirs of Euro-
pean and Asiatic Turkey, my manuscript was misunderstood.
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hundred, I copied five; two were immediately under the
figures, the other three are amongst the easiest to be made
out *.
At a short distance north are the remains of a small tem-
ple f, consisting of six beautifully finished columns with ca-
pitals. Two of them, facing the north, are engaged in a wall
two-thirds of their height, forming a gateway. Their capitals
are heads of Isis, supporting a plinth, on which monolithic
temples are sculptured. The other four, two on the west
and two on the east, are also engaged in a wall, half their
height. The capitals vary, but are of the lotus form: the
opposites of each end are alike. Those to the south angles
of the east and west sides have the grape and wheat-ear in
relief under their volutes. In the west side there is a small
doorway. The walls, in which the columns are engaged,
have a cornice. The columns stand on circular bases, and
the foundation of the whole is partly seen. The architraves,
entablature, die, and part of the cornice, remain. The shafts
are about three feet in diameter, and the distance between
them about ten feet. The north front is thirty feet, the east
and west thirty-six. At the base, two or three symbolic
* See Greek inscriptions at the end.
t In the description of this temple, p. 405, in Walpole's Memoirs of Euro-
pean and Asiatic Turkey, my manuscript was misunderstood.
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