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PLATE XXVII.
Fig. 1. The base, capital, and entablature of this building.
They resemble the ancient Ionic examples still remaining at Rome, rather than those of the
best age of Greece; the mouldings in general, it must be allowed, are simple, and in good taste,
though not finished with that delicacy we have admired in the Erechtheum and the temple of Minerva
Polias ; it is perhaps to be accounted a more complete specimen of this kind of the Ionic than any
which Rome can at present furnish.
" Fig. 2. Dimensions of the volute."
PLATE XXVIII.
Fig. l. The capital reversed.
Fig. 2. The side of the capital.
Fig. 3. The section through the front of the capital.
Fig. 4. The section through the side of the capital.
Fig. 5. The mouldings of the architrave and of the arch.
In the neighbourhood of this aqueduct, was the Gymnasium called Cynosarges; and not far
from it, but nearer the city, another called the Lyceum ; neither of them far from the Ilissus: in
these schools, among other manly exercises, we may suppose, the youth were taught the use of missive
weapons. In the channel of the Ilissus we found several of the leaden bulletsa they used to cast
from their slings, and some brazen points of darts. The leaden bullets are shaped like almonds, some
t em weigh upwards of three ounces, others only an ounce and a half. They have on one side a
thunderbolt, and on the other the word AEE A 2 b. The points of the arrows were of different forms,
some having two, others, three faces.
Ihis Head-piece seen at Plate XV. Fig. 5, is composed from these ancient bullets and darts.
The vignette at the end Plate XV. Fig. 6, represents a cathedra, perhaps the seat of the Gym-
a See Xenophon's retreat of the Ten Thousand, in the expedi- found also bearing the names <J>IAinno£ and nEPAIKAE. We
tion of Cyrus, Book III. where he says the slings of the Rhodians, saw one at Corfu embossed with the word K.AAIETPATOY. On
with leaden bullets, carried twice as far as those of the Persians the whole, therefore, we conclude that these almonds of lead
that threw stones. alluded to by D'Hancarville as coins, were no other than Sici-
b Mr. Burgon, late of Smyrna, and Mr. Hobhouse each pos- lian sling bullets, or, what would be equivalent, similar votive
sess a similar sling bullet, bearing the word AESAI, a sarcastic objects inscribed and dedicated in honour of Sicilian victories,
expression on wounding. M. D'Hancarville, considered several Many ancient authors mention inscribed missiles ; from a pas-
antique leaden acorns (' glandes') found at Leontium, in Sicily, sage of Virgil, we find that sling bullets of lead were of very
of a slightly different form in consequence of being somewhat more remote antiquity, and that they were called ' glandefs' or acorns,
elongated, to have been ancient money, although at the same time In speaking of the Hernici of Italy, he says—.
lie aUudes to the sling bullets of antiquity. These bear the words ......pars maxuma glandes
NIKH AIOC, NIKH MATEPfiN, NIKH APTEMIAOC, NIKH Liventis plumbi spargit;
A®A[,aTu,r\ and one with a thunderbolt has under it NIKH At the siege of the Piraeus by Sylla, it is related that two
and on its reverse AGHNIOC NIKH. All these he views as early slaves treacherously informed him of the resolutions of the be-
Grecian coins, under the term, " Monnoies Obolaires." His sieged, by inscribing them on leaden bullets, which they dis-
notion of the purpose of these leaden almonds, is an ingenious charged from slings into his camp.
application of them in support of a passage of Plutarch, respect- Visconti objects to the word AESAX of the bullets of Stuart,
ing the obeliscal form of the most ancient money. He therefore and proposes as the proper reading AESAIE, considering " acci-
thus describes a leaden medal impressed with the form of a si- pias" as preferable to "accrpe", but as the terrific ' jeu d'esprit'
milar object, and inscribed KATANA: " Une monnoie Sicilienne is perfectly intelligible, the amendment is of no great moment,
en plomb a pour empreinte deux oboles reunies par leurs bases, In the original vignette, at the apparent indication of the size
ce qui leur donne la figure d'un gland allonge dans ses extre- of these bullets, are indistinctly engraved the figures 3. 2 5
mites, et en memetems celle de l'obelisque d'une des medailles on that to the left, and on the other 3. 1. These figures areun-
d'Apollonie. Ces glands represented la forme de la diobole, ou explained in the text; they doubtless relate to the weight in ounces
double obole, frappee a Catane, dont pour cette raison le nom est and pennyweights. Mr. Hobhouse states the bullet in hi
-------^ ^,„ic, in1T^ <* ~""~r' --- «• . -------- ----1 t w - —-......^ uuuet in ins pos-
t'crit sur leur longueur." The form ot the sigma, however, re- session to weigh d oz. 13 dwts. Hobhouse's Travels V I n
fers the above objects to a very late epoch of Grecian history, and 334. Plutarch in Lysandro. D'Hancarville, Recnerches sur les
the almost constant appearance of the word NIKH, or "victory", Arts de la Grece, Tome I. PI. I. and VI. p. 14. Dodwell's
on them, shews that they related to martial exploits. On one Travels, V. II. p. 160. Virg.iEn. VII. 686. Appian. Bell. Mith.
found at Athens KAEONTKOT was inscribed. They have been p. 193. Ted 1
PLATE XXVII.
Fig. 1. The base, capital, and entablature of this building.
They resemble the ancient Ionic examples still remaining at Rome, rather than those of the
best age of Greece; the mouldings in general, it must be allowed, are simple, and in good taste,
though not finished with that delicacy we have admired in the Erechtheum and the temple of Minerva
Polias ; it is perhaps to be accounted a more complete specimen of this kind of the Ionic than any
which Rome can at present furnish.
" Fig. 2. Dimensions of the volute."
PLATE XXVIII.
Fig. l. The capital reversed.
Fig. 2. The side of the capital.
Fig. 3. The section through the front of the capital.
Fig. 4. The section through the side of the capital.
Fig. 5. The mouldings of the architrave and of the arch.
In the neighbourhood of this aqueduct, was the Gymnasium called Cynosarges; and not far
from it, but nearer the city, another called the Lyceum ; neither of them far from the Ilissus: in
these schools, among other manly exercises, we may suppose, the youth were taught the use of missive
weapons. In the channel of the Ilissus we found several of the leaden bulletsa they used to cast
from their slings, and some brazen points of darts. The leaden bullets are shaped like almonds, some
t em weigh upwards of three ounces, others only an ounce and a half. They have on one side a
thunderbolt, and on the other the word AEE A 2 b. The points of the arrows were of different forms,
some having two, others, three faces.
Ihis Head-piece seen at Plate XV. Fig. 5, is composed from these ancient bullets and darts.
The vignette at the end Plate XV. Fig. 6, represents a cathedra, perhaps the seat of the Gym-
a See Xenophon's retreat of the Ten Thousand, in the expedi- found also bearing the names <J>IAinno£ and nEPAIKAE. We
tion of Cyrus, Book III. where he says the slings of the Rhodians, saw one at Corfu embossed with the word K.AAIETPATOY. On
with leaden bullets, carried twice as far as those of the Persians the whole, therefore, we conclude that these almonds of lead
that threw stones. alluded to by D'Hancarville as coins, were no other than Sici-
b Mr. Burgon, late of Smyrna, and Mr. Hobhouse each pos- lian sling bullets, or, what would be equivalent, similar votive
sess a similar sling bullet, bearing the word AESAI, a sarcastic objects inscribed and dedicated in honour of Sicilian victories,
expression on wounding. M. D'Hancarville, considered several Many ancient authors mention inscribed missiles ; from a pas-
antique leaden acorns (' glandes') found at Leontium, in Sicily, sage of Virgil, we find that sling bullets of lead were of very
of a slightly different form in consequence of being somewhat more remote antiquity, and that they were called ' glandefs' or acorns,
elongated, to have been ancient money, although at the same time In speaking of the Hernici of Italy, he says—.
lie aUudes to the sling bullets of antiquity. These bear the words ......pars maxuma glandes
NIKH AIOC, NIKH MATEPfiN, NIKH APTEMIAOC, NIKH Liventis plumbi spargit;
A®A[,aTu,r\ and one with a thunderbolt has under it NIKH At the siege of the Piraeus by Sylla, it is related that two
and on its reverse AGHNIOC NIKH. All these he views as early slaves treacherously informed him of the resolutions of the be-
Grecian coins, under the term, " Monnoies Obolaires." His sieged, by inscribing them on leaden bullets, which they dis-
notion of the purpose of these leaden almonds, is an ingenious charged from slings into his camp.
application of them in support of a passage of Plutarch, respect- Visconti objects to the word AESAX of the bullets of Stuart,
ing the obeliscal form of the most ancient money. He therefore and proposes as the proper reading AESAIE, considering " acci-
thus describes a leaden medal impressed with the form of a si- pias" as preferable to "accrpe", but as the terrific ' jeu d'esprit'
milar object, and inscribed KATANA: " Une monnoie Sicilienne is perfectly intelligible, the amendment is of no great moment,
en plomb a pour empreinte deux oboles reunies par leurs bases, In the original vignette, at the apparent indication of the size
ce qui leur donne la figure d'un gland allonge dans ses extre- of these bullets, are indistinctly engraved the figures 3. 2 5
mites, et en memetems celle de l'obelisque d'une des medailles on that to the left, and on the other 3. 1. These figures areun-
d'Apollonie. Ces glands represented la forme de la diobole, ou explained in the text; they doubtless relate to the weight in ounces
double obole, frappee a Catane, dont pour cette raison le nom est and pennyweights. Mr. Hobhouse states the bullet in hi
-------^ ^,„ic, in1T^ <* ~""~r' --- «• . -------- ----1 t w - —-......^ uuuet in ins pos-
t'crit sur leur longueur." The form ot the sigma, however, re- session to weigh d oz. 13 dwts. Hobhouse's Travels V I n
fers the above objects to a very late epoch of Grecian history, and 334. Plutarch in Lysandro. D'Hancarville, Recnerches sur les
the almost constant appearance of the word NIKH, or "victory", Arts de la Grece, Tome I. PI. I. and VI. p. 14. Dodwell's
on them, shews that they related to martial exploits. On one Travels, V. II. p. 160. Virg.iEn. VII. 686. Appian. Bell. Mith.
found at Athens KAEONTKOT was inscribed. They have been p. 193. Ted 1