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THE SITE OF ANCIENT EPHESUS. 2$
was probably the Prytaneum. It was probably in this
building that Mark Antony was sitting in the judgment-
seat, when he saw Cleopatra passing by, and hastened
out to join her. The Stadium was built on the north
side of Mount Coressus, and near the Corcssian gate.
This was 850 feet long, and included a theatre at the
cast end. On the opposite side of the road which passed
in front of the Stadium stood the Serapion on a rocky
mound. Its rock-cut altar and quadrangle surrounded
by cells remind one forcibly of the Serapion at Pozzuoli
near Naples. To the north of the Stadium are extensive
ruins of a large building which I partly explored ; this
was probably the Tyrant's Palace. The substructure
contained apartments similar to those in Caligula's
palace at Rome, which were occupied by the guard and
other palace officials.
On the south side of the Agora arc the remains .of a
beautiful Roman hexastyle temple of marble, with mono-
lithic fluted columns nearly forty feet in length. Of the
domestic buildings of the city nothing remains but the
vaulted substructures on which they were raised ; many
of these still exist on the slopes of Mount Prion.
was probably the Prytaneum. It was probably in this
building that Mark Antony was sitting in the judgment-
seat, when he saw Cleopatra passing by, and hastened
out to join her. The Stadium was built on the north
side of Mount Coressus, and near the Corcssian gate.
This was 850 feet long, and included a theatre at the
cast end. On the opposite side of the road which passed
in front of the Stadium stood the Serapion on a rocky
mound. Its rock-cut altar and quadrangle surrounded
by cells remind one forcibly of the Serapion at Pozzuoli
near Naples. To the north of the Stadium are extensive
ruins of a large building which I partly explored ; this
was probably the Tyrant's Palace. The substructure
contained apartments similar to those in Caligula's
palace at Rome, which were occupied by the guard and
other palace officials.
On the south side of the Agora arc the remains .of a
beautiful Roman hexastyle temple of marble, with mono-
lithic fluted columns nearly forty feet in length. Of the
domestic buildings of the city nothing remains but the
vaulted substructures on which they were raised ; many
of these still exist on the slopes of Mount Prion.