Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.

  • Karl Otfried Müller
Date:
1852
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    and the length measured over the glans ie only about 9 feet. The aper- ture is stretched open nearly 7 feet. This from the writer's own obser- vation and measurement,] comp. §. 170.—Phrygian tumuli, §. 50. R. 2.— An enormous triangular pyramid among the Sacaj is described by Cte- sias, Pers. 27. p. 117. Lion. 3. The tomb of Midas in the valley of Doganlu, near the ancient Na- coleia in Northern Phrygia, hewn out of red sandstone; the facade about 80 feet high, 60 broad; above, a kind of pediment ornamented with large volutes. Leake in Walpole's Travels, p. 207. Asia Minor, p. 26. Hamilton, Egypt, p. 418. On the inscription (MIAAI. .FAJSTAKTEI) Osann Midas 1830. Grotefend, Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. iii. P. ii. p. 317. In the neighbourhood, according to Leake, may be seen fa- gades consisting of a prostyle of two columns, with architrave, dentels and corona—the form which presents itself so often in the necropolis of Telmissus, and bears there more the forms of the Ionic order. Choi- seul-Gouflf. i. p. 118. pi. 67. 68. [According to J. R. Steuart Descr. of some anc. mon. with inscriptions still existing in Lydia and Phrygia; several of which are supposed to be tombs of the early kings, L. 1842, the inscription is more complete ATE2 APKIAEFAI2 ' AKENANOrAFOS (the name of the father in the genitive) MIAAI AATAPTAEI (xctt^j?, like Aayof, A«axT)if) FANAKTEI EAAE2 (probably B>ixe), comp. Bull. 1843, p. 64. Seven sepulchral monuments in the valley of Doganlu with the same characters are engraved with various other remark- able monuments. Brazen virgin on the tomb of Midas, Hom. Epigr. 3.] 5. [Sculpture on a wall of rock at Sipylos §. 64. R. 2. On the tumulua of Alyattes, which is by far the largest (Herod, i, 93) of all the himdreda in the Sardian necropolis, beyond the Hermus, scattered singly and in groups over a wide and elevated space, there lies the head of a phallus, 40 feet in circumference, 12 feet in diameter, of very good workmanship. Lycia §. 90. 128.*] III. THE NATIONS OP THE ARIAN RACE, 1 242. Although the Arian (or Iranian) tribe, which, com- mencing from Ariana, comprehended the ancient inhabitants of Bactria, Media, and Persia, was essentially different in lan- guage, national customs, and religion, from the Syrian race, yet the style of art among the former people bore a consider- able affinity to that with which we have become acquainted at Babylon; and we are compelled to regard the art which flourished in the great Persian empire as only a further de- 2 velopment of the ancient Assyrian. The cause lies partly in this, that the great empire of Assyria, such as it existed— comprehending also Babylon—before 7oO, extended over the greatest part of Iran, even including Bactria, and when the Median throne was afterwards established, the court manners and luxury of the earlier dynasties in Assyria and Babylon were very naturally engrafted on it, in the same way as in