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REPORT OX THE ISLAND OF COS. G33
Budrum. The hearings on the shields are similar
to those met with, in the latter fortress.
An inscription over the gateway of the inner
building gives the date of the erection of this part
of the structure, A.D. 1478.
The outer inclosure I conclude to he a work of a
more recent period, prohahly of Turkish times; for
the masonry has a modern character, and the
shields of the Knights arc found here and there
built into the walls in reversed positions.
Over the outer gateway is a portion of a frieze
with masks and festoons, not of fine workmanship ;
and within the gateway is a shield surrounded by a
rich vine-leaf pattern.
On the face of the outer Avail towards the sea
are fragments of a small frieze much worn. The
figures on it appear to have been those of Satyrs
and Bacchantes in procession.
On the internal face of the same wall arc three
other pieces of a frieze in better preservation; these
measure 4" 6" by 2', and are surrounded by a bold
ovolo moulding. One piece is tolerably perfect,
the others so much defaced that the outlines of the
figures are alone visible.'1
The roof of the inner gateway is composed of
drums of marble columns, and on cither side are
blocks of marble with names inscribed on them.
n [These, as lias been already pointed out, ante, p. 450, corre-
spond in scale and subject with two slabs excavated in a temple at
Cnidus, from which site they may have been transported by the
Knights. L. Itoss, however, supposed them to be part of the frieze
of the temple of ./Esculapius at Cos. See his Archacologisehe
Aufsaefcze (2nd Series), Leipzig, 1861, pp. 402-5.—C. T. N.]'
II. 2 T
Budrum. The hearings on the shields are similar
to those met with, in the latter fortress.
An inscription over the gateway of the inner
building gives the date of the erection of this part
of the structure, A.D. 1478.
The outer inclosure I conclude to he a work of a
more recent period, prohahly of Turkish times; for
the masonry has a modern character, and the
shields of the Knights arc found here and there
built into the walls in reversed positions.
Over the outer gateway is a portion of a frieze
with masks and festoons, not of fine workmanship ;
and within the gateway is a shield surrounded by a
rich vine-leaf pattern.
On the face of the outer Avail towards the sea
are fragments of a small frieze much worn. The
figures on it appear to have been those of Satyrs
and Bacchantes in procession.
On the internal face of the same wall arc three
other pieces of a frieze in better preservation; these
measure 4" 6" by 2', and are surrounded by a bold
ovolo moulding. One piece is tolerably perfect,
the others so much defaced that the outlines of the
figures are alone visible.'1
The roof of the inner gateway is composed of
drums of marble columns, and on cither side are
blocks of marble with names inscribed on them.
n [These, as lias been already pointed out, ante, p. 450, corre-
spond in scale and subject with two slabs excavated in a temple at
Cnidus, from which site they may have been transported by the
Knights. L. Itoss, however, supposed them to be part of the frieze
of the temple of ./Esculapius at Cos. See his Archacologisehe
Aufsaefcze (2nd Series), Leipzig, 1861, pp. 402-5.—C. T. N.]'
II. 2 T