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122 OF A RUIN AT SALONICA, CALLED THE INCANTADA.
PLATE XLV.
Fig. 1. A view of the Incantada, taken in the court-yard of a Jew merchant, on whose premises
it stands. The figures represent an interview between Consul Paradise and the Jew. The Consul had,
with great good nature, insisted on attending us to the Jew's house, the more effectually and more
readily to obtain permission for us to measure and design whatever we might find there worthy our
notice ; and, as the columns were buried to a considerable depth, to dig where we thought proper.
The Jew received us at the door of his court-yard; he was attended by a boy with coffee, which, with
great respect, he immediately offered to the Consul; his wife, from a kind of gallery, gently repre-
hended her husband for a breach of decorum, by offering his coffee before he had desired the Consul
to sit down ; two young women, her daughters, were with her, their curiosity had prompted them to
venture thus far, to take a view of their father's visitors. An old woman, who was spinning, approached
us with a greater appearance of confidence. The figures, which are seen at a little distance, are Mr.
Revett and myself, with my excellent friend young Mr. Paradise, then about ten years old, attended
by a Greek, who was dragoman to the Consul.
Fig. 2. Representations of the figures over the columns sculptured in high relief: —
I. A figure representing Victory.
II. A royal lady ; perhaps Helen, the subject of a tragedy of Euripides.
III. Telephus\ Euripides has written a tragedy with this title, of which only a fragment
remains.
IV. Ganymedes. See " The Trojans " of Euripides.
V. Leda.
VI. A Bacchante.
VII. Bacchus with a tiger. See " The Bacchffl " of Euripides.
VIII. A Bacchante dancing and playing on a fluteb.
PLATE XLVI.
The plan, elevation0, and section of the Incantada.
of which arc visible. The church of St. Sophia, formerly the cessions to Grecian antiquarian science, did not the barbarous
Metropolitan Church, resembles that of the same name at Con- fanaticism of the population, who are very usually infected with
stantinople, but on a smaller scale ; it is also now a mosque, and the plague, render exposure there unsafe for the purpose of care-
is decorated with columns of verdc-antique, and with a magnificent ful delineation or admeasurement.
and celebrated bema or pulpit of the same substance, regard- V. Pococke, Dcsc. of the East. Vol. II. P. II. PI. LXIV. p.
ing which, the Greeks of this city have a tradition, that St. Paul 150. Clarke's Travels, P. II. S. III. C. IX. p. 284. C. XI. p.
had preached from it when at Thessalonica. The quantity 359. 4to. Beaujour, Commerce de la Grece, Tome I. P. 44.
of architectural decorations seen here of verde-antiquo, the Par. 1800. Qui).]
marmor Atracium of the Ancients, is accounted for by Dr. E. D. a Dr. Clarke supposes this figure to be " Paris in the old Gre-
Clarkc, from the vicinity of this city to the natural locality of cian cap, with a bull's head by his side." and Fig. 6. to be
that marble which he discovered at the village called Ampelakia, Ariadne. Vide Clarke's Travels, P. II. S. III. C. XI. CED-!]
near the Peneus at the defile of Tempe. b These figures in general shew a period of the decline of art.
The monument, however, of the highest classic interest, seen Those next the street are of superior execution to those behind ;
at Salonica, if the judgment of Beaujour be correct, would be, and the figure called Telephus by Stuart is comparatively of very
could it be developed, the remains of a temple, termed by masterly execution, while that behind it is very inferior. Stuart
him that of Thermean Venus, first converted into a church by has numbered these high reliefs, beginning with Victory, fig. 1,
the Greeks, and afterwards transformed into a mosque; he thus on the right hand, with the three others next the street in suc-
mentions it, " La Mosquee d'Eski Djumma, ou de l'ancien cession to the left; and followed by those on the opposite side,
Vendredi, etoit dans 1'origine un temple consacre a. Venus Ther- beginning with Leda, fig. 5, which is behind the Ganymede. A
mea----------qui etoit soutenu sur les deux cotes par douze co- Bacchante or Ariadne, fig. 6, which is behind Telephus: Bacchus
lonnes d'ordre Ionique de la plus elegante forme. Les six co- is the reverse of Helen or Medea, and the Thyad playing on the
lonnes du fronton se trouvent aujourd'hui masquees dans les murs flute is attached to the same pilaster as the Victory. These alto-
recrepis de la Mosquee. Si ce pays appartenoit a. un peuple relievos are perhaps of larger dimension than any known antique
police on pourroit depouiller le temple de Venus Thcrmeenne des sculpture of that class in existence; perhaps with the exception
batisses Gothiques qui le deparent, et cette carcasse seroit alors, of a Torso, of an armed figure which the editor saw embarked
apres le Temple de Thesee le monument pur, le mieux conserve for this country at Delos, and which has been lately deposited
de la Grece. J'ai passe trois ans a Saloniquc sans soup9onner ce among the Grecian Marbles at the British Museum. See Clarke's
que e'etoit." This and fragments of ornamental architecture, Travels. B. II. S. III. C. XI. Synopsis of the Contents of the
marble soroi and inscriptions distributed throughout the Turkish British Museum, 1827, R- XIV., No. 102. £ed.]
and most frequented quarters of the city, would be valuable ac- c Stuart in the text does not allude to the remains of the in-
PLATE XLV.
Fig. 1. A view of the Incantada, taken in the court-yard of a Jew merchant, on whose premises
it stands. The figures represent an interview between Consul Paradise and the Jew. The Consul had,
with great good nature, insisted on attending us to the Jew's house, the more effectually and more
readily to obtain permission for us to measure and design whatever we might find there worthy our
notice ; and, as the columns were buried to a considerable depth, to dig where we thought proper.
The Jew received us at the door of his court-yard; he was attended by a boy with coffee, which, with
great respect, he immediately offered to the Consul; his wife, from a kind of gallery, gently repre-
hended her husband for a breach of decorum, by offering his coffee before he had desired the Consul
to sit down ; two young women, her daughters, were with her, their curiosity had prompted them to
venture thus far, to take a view of their father's visitors. An old woman, who was spinning, approached
us with a greater appearance of confidence. The figures, which are seen at a little distance, are Mr.
Revett and myself, with my excellent friend young Mr. Paradise, then about ten years old, attended
by a Greek, who was dragoman to the Consul.
Fig. 2. Representations of the figures over the columns sculptured in high relief: —
I. A figure representing Victory.
II. A royal lady ; perhaps Helen, the subject of a tragedy of Euripides.
III. Telephus\ Euripides has written a tragedy with this title, of which only a fragment
remains.
IV. Ganymedes. See " The Trojans " of Euripides.
V. Leda.
VI. A Bacchante.
VII. Bacchus with a tiger. See " The Bacchffl " of Euripides.
VIII. A Bacchante dancing and playing on a fluteb.
PLATE XLVI.
The plan, elevation0, and section of the Incantada.
of which arc visible. The church of St. Sophia, formerly the cessions to Grecian antiquarian science, did not the barbarous
Metropolitan Church, resembles that of the same name at Con- fanaticism of the population, who are very usually infected with
stantinople, but on a smaller scale ; it is also now a mosque, and the plague, render exposure there unsafe for the purpose of care-
is decorated with columns of verdc-antique, and with a magnificent ful delineation or admeasurement.
and celebrated bema or pulpit of the same substance, regard- V. Pococke, Dcsc. of the East. Vol. II. P. II. PI. LXIV. p.
ing which, the Greeks of this city have a tradition, that St. Paul 150. Clarke's Travels, P. II. S. III. C. IX. p. 284. C. XI. p.
had preached from it when at Thessalonica. The quantity 359. 4to. Beaujour, Commerce de la Grece, Tome I. P. 44.
of architectural decorations seen here of verde-antiquo, the Par. 1800. Qui).]
marmor Atracium of the Ancients, is accounted for by Dr. E. D. a Dr. Clarke supposes this figure to be " Paris in the old Gre-
Clarkc, from the vicinity of this city to the natural locality of cian cap, with a bull's head by his side." and Fig. 6. to be
that marble which he discovered at the village called Ampelakia, Ariadne. Vide Clarke's Travels, P. II. S. III. C. XI. CED-!]
near the Peneus at the defile of Tempe. b These figures in general shew a period of the decline of art.
The monument, however, of the highest classic interest, seen Those next the street are of superior execution to those behind ;
at Salonica, if the judgment of Beaujour be correct, would be, and the figure called Telephus by Stuart is comparatively of very
could it be developed, the remains of a temple, termed by masterly execution, while that behind it is very inferior. Stuart
him that of Thermean Venus, first converted into a church by has numbered these high reliefs, beginning with Victory, fig. 1,
the Greeks, and afterwards transformed into a mosque; he thus on the right hand, with the three others next the street in suc-
mentions it, " La Mosquee d'Eski Djumma, ou de l'ancien cession to the left; and followed by those on the opposite side,
Vendredi, etoit dans 1'origine un temple consacre a. Venus Ther- beginning with Leda, fig. 5, which is behind the Ganymede. A
mea----------qui etoit soutenu sur les deux cotes par douze co- Bacchante or Ariadne, fig. 6, which is behind Telephus: Bacchus
lonnes d'ordre Ionique de la plus elegante forme. Les six co- is the reverse of Helen or Medea, and the Thyad playing on the
lonnes du fronton se trouvent aujourd'hui masquees dans les murs flute is attached to the same pilaster as the Victory. These alto-
recrepis de la Mosquee. Si ce pays appartenoit a. un peuple relievos are perhaps of larger dimension than any known antique
police on pourroit depouiller le temple de Venus Thcrmeenne des sculpture of that class in existence; perhaps with the exception
batisses Gothiques qui le deparent, et cette carcasse seroit alors, of a Torso, of an armed figure which the editor saw embarked
apres le Temple de Thesee le monument pur, le mieux conserve for this country at Delos, and which has been lately deposited
de la Grece. J'ai passe trois ans a Saloniquc sans soup9onner ce among the Grecian Marbles at the British Museum. See Clarke's
que e'etoit." This and fragments of ornamental architecture, Travels. B. II. S. III. C. XI. Synopsis of the Contents of the
marble soroi and inscriptions distributed throughout the Turkish British Museum, 1827, R- XIV., No. 102. £ed.]
and most frequented quarters of the city, would be valuable ac- c Stuart in the text does not allude to the remains of the in-