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FIELD OF HADJI CAPTAN. 309
was greater. The pavement, as has already been
stated, was in some places laid on an artificial level
composed of drains of columns and ruins of former
edifices. In other places the rubble bed of the pave-
ment, or rudus, rested on the soil; in others, again,
the rabble bed was omitted, and the upper layers
of cement were spread on the rock itself.
Vitravius lays down a rale in reference to the
beds of tessellated pavements, that they were to
consist of three courses, of which the lowest, called
statumen, was made of stones large enough to fill
the hand.s
It would appear that, in the building now de-
scribed, this rule, from the nature of the soil, was
not always followed; the rock itself being, in places,
used as a substitute for the lower courses. The
tessellce were chiefly of marble; in one picture,
however, brick was used in the red colour, and glass
in the green. The cubes were irregularly cut, and
not set with the precision and neatness which cha-
racterized the earlier Hellenic mosaic, fragments of
which I discovered in a subsequent excavation at
Budrum, as will be presently described.
The whole surface of the patterns was covered
with a thick coating of incrustation, which appears
to have oozed through the interstices of the pave-
ment from the bed of cement below.
Upon a review of the whole of the facts brought
to light in this excavation, I am of opinion that the
site is that of a villa of the Ploman period, built on
the ground occupied by an earlier Hellenic edifice.
b Vitruv. vii. 1.
was greater. The pavement, as has already been
stated, was in some places laid on an artificial level
composed of drains of columns and ruins of former
edifices. In other places the rubble bed of the pave-
ment, or rudus, rested on the soil; in others, again,
the rabble bed was omitted, and the upper layers
of cement were spread on the rock itself.
Vitravius lays down a rale in reference to the
beds of tessellated pavements, that they were to
consist of three courses, of which the lowest, called
statumen, was made of stones large enough to fill
the hand.s
It would appear that, in the building now de-
scribed, this rule, from the nature of the soil, was
not always followed; the rock itself being, in places,
used as a substitute for the lower courses. The
tessellce were chiefly of marble; in one picture,
however, brick was used in the red colour, and glass
in the green. The cubes were irregularly cut, and
not set with the precision and neatness which cha-
racterized the earlier Hellenic mosaic, fragments of
which I discovered in a subsequent excavation at
Budrum, as will be presently described.
The whole surface of the patterns was covered
with a thick coating of incrustation, which appears
to have oozed through the interstices of the pave-
ment from the bed of cement below.
Upon a review of the whole of the facts brought
to light in this excavation, I am of opinion that the
site is that of a villa of the Ploman period, built on
the ground occupied by an earlier Hellenic edifice.
b Vitruv. vii. 1.