DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.9841#0088
XXV.]
WALLS OF PHALASAItNA.
69
cated to the God of War3'1, and was placed at the very
entrance of Adule10, just as we find this monument
within a few paces of the ruined walls of Phalasarna.
The maritime situation of the city might lead us
to suppose the throne to have been dedicated, like that
at Ravenna, to Poseidon ; but the prevalence of Dic-
tynna's worship in this part of the island, and the known
existence of a temple of her's at Phalasarna, make it
perhaps somewhat more probable that the offering was
meant to honour that Cretan Goddess.
Remains of the city walls of Phalasarna exist in a
greater or less degree of preservation, from its northern
side, where it seems to have reached the sea, to its south-
western point, cutting off the acropolis and the city along
with it, as a small promontory. In the existing remains
of these walls, near the sea on the north side, there are
seen square projections, which we may suppose to have
been the places of towers. One of these projections is
found near the very northern extremity of the walls: it
is succeeded by a curtain, if I may consider the towers
as bastions, and may use a technical term of the art of
fortification, one hundred and twenty feet long: another
interval of about two hundred and thirty feet brings
us to a third tower, the face of which is thirty-six feet,
while its flanks are twenty feet long. A hundred paces
more and we arrive at a little chapel dedicated to Haghios
Gheorghios; and one hundred and twenty feet further
°n is another projecting tower or bastion, after passing
which the direction of the walls changes, and, instead
throne at Phalasarna to have been thus meant as a seat of honour for men,
rather than as an offering to a deity, he may compare Suidas, under ol
"ofiotpvXaKes, Valesius, on Harpocrat. 55. and Walpole, Memoirs relating
to European and Asiatic Turkey, Vol. i. p. 310. The throne represented on
the coins of Olba in Cilicia, and on which there is a dissertation by the
Abbe" Belley, in the Memoires de 1'Acade'mie des Inscriptions et lielles
Lettres, Tom. xxi. pp. 421 and 427. may either have been dedicated to
Zeus, or used by Polemo.
■1" Chishull, p. 78. or pp. 81-82.
■"' Cosmas, in Chishiill, p. 74. 'Ev rjj apXV '"/« 'roA.eios koto to-
WALLS OF PHALASAItNA.
69
cated to the God of War3'1, and was placed at the very
entrance of Adule10, just as we find this monument
within a few paces of the ruined walls of Phalasarna.
The maritime situation of the city might lead us
to suppose the throne to have been dedicated, like that
at Ravenna, to Poseidon ; but the prevalence of Dic-
tynna's worship in this part of the island, and the known
existence of a temple of her's at Phalasarna, make it
perhaps somewhat more probable that the offering was
meant to honour that Cretan Goddess.
Remains of the city walls of Phalasarna exist in a
greater or less degree of preservation, from its northern
side, where it seems to have reached the sea, to its south-
western point, cutting off the acropolis and the city along
with it, as a small promontory. In the existing remains
of these walls, near the sea on the north side, there are
seen square projections, which we may suppose to have
been the places of towers. One of these projections is
found near the very northern extremity of the walls: it
is succeeded by a curtain, if I may consider the towers
as bastions, and may use a technical term of the art of
fortification, one hundred and twenty feet long: another
interval of about two hundred and thirty feet brings
us to a third tower, the face of which is thirty-six feet,
while its flanks are twenty feet long. A hundred paces
more and we arrive at a little chapel dedicated to Haghios
Gheorghios; and one hundred and twenty feet further
°n is another projecting tower or bastion, after passing
which the direction of the walls changes, and, instead
throne at Phalasarna to have been thus meant as a seat of honour for men,
rather than as an offering to a deity, he may compare Suidas, under ol
"ofiotpvXaKes, Valesius, on Harpocrat. 55. and Walpole, Memoirs relating
to European and Asiatic Turkey, Vol. i. p. 310. The throne represented on
the coins of Olba in Cilicia, and on which there is a dissertation by the
Abbe" Belley, in the Memoires de 1'Acade'mie des Inscriptions et lielles
Lettres, Tom. xxi. pp. 421 and 427. may either have been dedicated to
Zeus, or used by Polemo.
■1" Chishull, p. 78. or pp. 81-82.
■"' Cosmas, in Chishiill, p. 74. 'Ev rjj apXV '"/« 'roA.eios koto to-