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

610 REPORT ON THE ISLAND OF COS.

or Budrum, being in reality a walled town.
Except a wall with embrasures, there arc no works
for defence, except a circular bastion outside the
principal gateway. Over this gateway is a large
shield bearing the arms of the Order of St. John,
and surmounted by a cardinal's hat.s In the
walls are also three shields combined with the
date 1520 ;—(1.) The arms of the Grand Master
P. de Carctto; (2.) Per pale three chcvroncls,
in dexter chief a crescent; (3.) Ram impaling
cheeky.

The commandant presented us with a small
mutilated statue that had been built into the
wall of his house. "VVe copied several inscriptions
here.

2nd Dec.—We descended to the sea-shore by
one of the numerous ravines that terminate the
plateau on the cast side of the island, for the
purpose of visiting the site of the ancient city
of Halasarna.

Passing through a village, the church of which
furnished an inscription, we reached the shore
near the ruined church of Hagios Thcodoros. A
portion of the apse of this church remains: it is
built of fine blocks of black and white marble; near
it are pieces of frieze and architrave, and of drums
of columns. Amongst the ruins we found two
inscriptions. The shore is here strewn with bits
of marble, a proof that there must have existed
buildings of some importance in the vicinity.

s [Doubtless the arms of the Grand Master I'eter d'Aubusson.—
C. T. N.]