White, Joseph; White, Joseph [Hrsg.]: Aegyptiaca, or observations on certain antiquities of Egypt (Band 1): The history of Pompey's pillar elucidated (Oxford, 1801)

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APPENDIX. No. II.

PART I.

The hill, on which Pompey’s Pillar hands, is hyled a
Promontory, by one of our earlieh travellers. “ Poh-
“ ridie,” fays Bellonius, “ urbe egreffi prasaltam Pom-
“ peii Columnam fpedtatum ivimus, in exiguo quodam
“ Promontorio htam &c.” p. 4. And again at p. 5.
concerning the fame eminence—“ Ex fummo hoc Pro-
“ montorio longus in mare et continentem patet con-
“ fpedtus.”

I avow, therefore, that the VAxpa. or Promontory,
fpoken of by Clemens Alexandrinus, appears to me to
be the very eminence on which Pompey’s Pillar hands ;
and I conceive that the Temple of Serapis was chiefly

built ON AN ARTIFICIAL HEIGHT, JOINED TO THIS
NATURAL EMINENCE, AND RAISED PRECISELY TO THE
SAME LEVEL.

Ruffinus informs us, that the afcent to the platform
of the Temple was by a flight of at leah a hundred
hepsc. And the height of the hill, on which Pompey’s
Pillar hands, is hated by Abdollatif to be twenty-three
cubits and a halfd; and by Maillet to be about twenty-

c “ Locus eft non natura, fed manu et conftrudHone per centum, aut eo
<c amplius gradus, in fublime fufpenfus.” See p. 36.

d “ Legi in autographo cujufdam peregrinatoris, ipfum menfurafle rov
“ Amud [IJJawari\ una cum ejus ball et capitello, fuiffeque fexaginta duo-