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ANECDOTES CONNECTED WITH EXCAVATIONS. 93
on the outer wall I inadvertently stepped backward ; I
was nearer the edge of the wall than I thought, so I fell
back off the wall into the branches of a tree which fortu-
nately broke my fall of some twenty feet. When my
cavass ran up to me I was on my back on the ground
panting for breath. The man instinctively did the very
thing that was needed at that moment, he pressed his
hands firmly on my chest, and in a few minutes I was
quite myself again and almost uninjured. So we went
on with our work.
A circular mound near the Odeum attracted my
attention, and as far as my funds would allow I laid it
bare. It was a Roman monument domed over with
spurs of masonry large enough for the pedestals of
equestrian statues.
Near this building were found the remains of a square
Roman building surrounded by a portico, one of the
pedestals of which had a dedicatory inscription to
Publius Vcdius Antoninus by the wool-factors; so this
was probably the wool-factors' hall and market. The
excavations at this time excited the curiosity of the
natives at Tchirkenjee, a village some hundreds of feet
above the plain of Ephesus, and they came down in
groups of fifteen or twenty men, women, and children,
and gazed wonderingly at the buildings I had already
exhumed. To their minds there was something of magic
in the discovery of buildings which had been buried for
centuries. The young women were often very attractive
in their simple dress and head-gear, the latter a coloured
kerchief; their walk was peculiarly graceful, and their
demeanour was modest and pleasing. These people are
Greeks, but they speak Turkish only.
on the outer wall I inadvertently stepped backward ; I
was nearer the edge of the wall than I thought, so I fell
back off the wall into the branches of a tree which fortu-
nately broke my fall of some twenty feet. When my
cavass ran up to me I was on my back on the ground
panting for breath. The man instinctively did the very
thing that was needed at that moment, he pressed his
hands firmly on my chest, and in a few minutes I was
quite myself again and almost uninjured. So we went
on with our work.
A circular mound near the Odeum attracted my
attention, and as far as my funds would allow I laid it
bare. It was a Roman monument domed over with
spurs of masonry large enough for the pedestals of
equestrian statues.
Near this building were found the remains of a square
Roman building surrounded by a portico, one of the
pedestals of which had a dedicatory inscription to
Publius Vcdius Antoninus by the wool-factors; so this
was probably the wool-factors' hall and market. The
excavations at this time excited the curiosity of the
natives at Tchirkenjee, a village some hundreds of feet
above the plain of Ephesus, and they came down in
groups of fifteen or twenty men, women, and children,
and gazed wonderingly at the buildings I had already
exhumed. To their minds there was something of magic
in the discovery of buildings which had been buried for
centuries. The young women were often very attractive
in their simple dress and head-gear, the latter a coloured
kerchief; their walk was peculiarly graceful, and their
demeanour was modest and pleasing. These people are
Greeks, but they speak Turkish only.