Newton, Charles T. [Hrsg.]; Pullan, Richard P. [Hrsg.]: A history of discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae (Band 2, Teil 2) (London, 1863)

316 histoky or CNIDUS.

Augustus. Onidua part of tlie province of Asia under the em-
perors. Its constitution at this time. Limits of the Cnidian
territory on the east. Causes of its political insignificance.
Excellence of its natural products. Cnidian wine and oil ex-
ported. Cnidian diotce. Other valuable productions.

The proceedings of the expedition narrated in the
previous pages occupied a period of about seventeen
months, from November 1856, to March 1858. At
the close of the year 1857, having nearly exhausted
discovery on the site of the Mausoleum, I was
enabled to commence an enterprise, which had
formed part of the original plan of the expedi-
tion,—the exploration of Onidus. I had selected
this second field of operations, not only because of
the celebrity of the ancient city and the extent of
its ruins, but also on account of its vicinity to
Budrum and the circumstance that, being uninha-
bited, it could be explored without such hindrances
as I encountered on the site of the Mausoleum.

Before proceeding to give an account of our dis-
coveries at Onidus, it may be as Avell to give a
general description of the site, and a brief sketch
of the history of this celebrated city. Cnidus, like
Mytilene, Myndus, and many other cities of the
ancient world, was originally built on an island, so
close to the mainland as to form two harbours
connected by a narrow strait, such as the Greeks
called an Euripus*

This island, the ancient Triopium,1' is a lofty

a Pausan. viii. 30, 2.

b According to Pausanias, v. 2, 47, it was called Cherronesos ;
but this name is applied by Diodorus (v. G0-G3) to the peninsula