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366 TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF
Notwithstanding this extensive spoliation, the
ruins still cover a very large area, and, from the
peculiar configuration of the site, the general plan
of the city can he made out without much diffi-
culty. As has heen already noticed, the shores of
both harbours slope gradually upwards, being built
in a succession of terraces, at right angles to which
are streets and flights of steps. These terraces
are continued up to the very foot of the limestone
ranges, above which line their formation would have
been impossible, on account of the steepness of the
slope and the absence of soil. The most conspicuous
of these terraces on the continent is one over-
looking both harbours, and marked " Doric por-
tico " in the Plan. Here lie the ruins of a stoa,
an elevation of which, restored from these data,
is given in the Dilettanti volume (Plates XXVI.—
XXVIII.). It has been supposed by Colonel Leake,
that. this stoa is the pensilis ambidatio built by
Sostratos at Cnidus, about the time of Ptolemy
Philadelphus, and the authors of the Dilettanti
volume confirm this opinion by the statement that
the Doric in this stoa coincides not only in its pro-
portions, but in all the dimensions, with that of the
stoa of Philip at Delos.
This does not seem an improbable conjecture;
at the same time it may be observed, that, among
the fragments of this portico, I noticed a piece of
architrave, inscribed with the name of Theopom-
pos, in majuscule letters (Appendix, No. 78).
These letters were evidently part of an inscription
relating to the edifice of which the architrave
Notwithstanding this extensive spoliation, the
ruins still cover a very large area, and, from the
peculiar configuration of the site, the general plan
of the city can he made out without much diffi-
culty. As has heen already noticed, the shores of
both harbours slope gradually upwards, being built
in a succession of terraces, at right angles to which
are streets and flights of steps. These terraces
are continued up to the very foot of the limestone
ranges, above which line their formation would have
been impossible, on account of the steepness of the
slope and the absence of soil. The most conspicuous
of these terraces on the continent is one over-
looking both harbours, and marked " Doric por-
tico " in the Plan. Here lie the ruins of a stoa,
an elevation of which, restored from these data,
is given in the Dilettanti volume (Plates XXVI.—
XXVIII.). It has been supposed by Colonel Leake,
that. this stoa is the pensilis ambidatio built by
Sostratos at Cnidus, about the time of Ptolemy
Philadelphus, and the authors of the Dilettanti
volume confirm this opinion by the statement that
the Doric in this stoa coincides not only in its pro-
portions, but in all the dimensions, with that of the
stoa of Philip at Delos.
This does not seem an improbable conjecture;
at the same time it may be observed, that, among
the fragments of this portico, I noticed a piece of
architrave, inscribed with the name of Theopom-
pos, in majuscule letters (Appendix, No. 78).
These letters were evidently part of an inscription
relating to the edifice of which the architrave