Foreign topography; or, an encyclopedick account, alphabetically arranged, of the ancient remains in Africa, Asia, and Europe; forming a sequel to the Encyclopedia of antiquities / By the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbroke.
- Thomas Dudley Fosbroke
- Date:
- 1828
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Foreign topography; or, an encyclopedick account, alphabetically arranged, of the ancient remains in Africa, Asia, and Europe; forming a sequel to the Encyclopedia of antiquities / By the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbroke. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![destined to watch the incursions and motions of the enemy. Many parts of it are already fallen, and other parts are in a ruinous state. Anderson, 196—8. Pelasgia, or Larissa Kremuste. Supposed the capital of the kingdom of Achilles, about 10 miles from Echina, and f of an hour from Graditza. There are remains at the foot of a steep hill. The walls are built up the side of the hill. The construc- tion is of the third style, and is finely built with huge masses. The summit of the hill seems to have been occupied by a Dorick temple, as Mr. Dodwell found a triglyph with some fragments of white marble. Dodw. ii. 81. Pelasgu (plain between Larissa and Tempe). Numerous tumuli ; some ex- tremely large and in excellent preservation. Clarke, vii. 353* Peletin (in Marche in France). An octagon temple of the Gauls. Montfauc. Suppl. ii. b. 8. c. 2. Pella (Judcea). Now Beil or Ras, where are large ruins, but no columns stand- ing; several of great size, however, lie on the ground. Archceologia, xxi. p. 140. Pellana supposed 33 minutes from Agio-Basili, Greece). Several large blocks and foundations, also a fine Kephalo Brusi, or spring supposed the Pellanis, one of the sources of the Eurotas. Dodw. ii. 399- Pelorum (Sicily). Ruins of walls in mattoni, coated with marble, a pavement of white Mosaic without compartments. Another circular chamber with flues within the wall, undoubtedly a hot bath. Pieces of square marble excavated, which appear never to have been used. No coins found before Constantine. Denon, 403. Pentelick Quarries. They are engraved in Dodwell (i. 498). The quarry is cut into jierpendicular precipices. The marks of the tools are still visible upon its surface. Several frusta of columns and large masses have been left scattered about. Rough designs of temples, probably made by the stone-cutters in their idle hours, are cut in the precipices and engraved. Id. i. 500. Pergamus. The ruins of Pergamus (says Dr. Clarke, iii. 226.) are very deserving of minute examination, particularly those in the Acropolis. In one part of it, towards the south, is a wall of granite, a most stupendous work 80 or 90 feet in per- pendicular depth. Vast cisterns and decayed towers (in one of which Dr. Clarke copied a Greek inscription) are to be seen. The Acropolis was adorned with a temple of the Corinthian order, whose pillars, of nearly four feet diameter, are lying prostrate among other parts of it. This temple. Dr. Clarke conceives, was erected to Minerva. We know from Vitruvius (i. c. 7,) that'her temple was built (in excelsissimo loco). To the west of the town was the Stadium, and a theatre above it. The relative situa- tions of these two buildings, at Tralles in Asia, were the same, according to Vitruvius. [Trallibus Portions ex utraque parte scence, supra Stadium, 1. v.] Further on to the west are the remains of an amphitheatre or naumachia, for it could be furnished with water at convenience. In the Voyage Pittoresque de la Greece, tom. ii. pi. 1, 2, are engraved a plan of the town ; of the temple of Esculapius ; the Acropolis ; ruins of the gymnasium, walls, and arches. About nine miles from Smyrna, on the road to Colophon, tombs were discovered. The most ancient of these tombs are also the most simple, and those of vvhich the structure has the most resemblance with those of the Scythian tombs, observed by M. Pallas. They are cones of earth, raised with much art, upon the place which was occupied by the funeral pile, and which con- tained its remains. Sovereigns elevated these to hold their whole families. Hence these gigantic tombs and mountains, supported by interior vaults. The Asiatick princes observed the Scythian form, raised their sepulchres upon solid stone bases, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22012035_0296.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
