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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![SANALIPSIS.—SARDES. Sanalifsis (Argolis). On the road from Agios Georgios to Argos, near Mount Sanalipsis,at 50 min. cross a river, and the foundations of a wall, which seems to have been the boundary of a territory. At 55, cross another wall of the same nature. Such double walls, at a short distance from each other, are very common in Greece. The walls here mentioned, seem to be continued across the road from Nemeea to IMycense, where they arc separated by a space equal to about 8 minutes. They may have formed the boundaries of the jurisdiction of the city of Mycenae. Gell's Ar- golis, 76. Sane (Greece). Ruins of the town afterwards called Uranopolis. Herissos occu- pies the site. Voyage Pittoresque, tom. ii. pi. J5. Saourdeh (Egypt). In the Grande Description (A. vol. iv. pi. 68, figs. 1 to 10.) are plans and details of a hypogaeum of the Doric order, situate at Saourdeh. In the same plate are the bas-reliefs. They represent agricultural work, such as ploughing, reaping, &c. '^i’he sheafs are of a cylindrical form, and they are carried home in a curious manner. Each man bears one on his shoulder by a stick thrust through it, and with the other hand holds a bellows and pipe. In fig. 15 are asses carrying a huge basket, shaped like a dice-box, and reaching from the neck to the haunches of the beast. Sapyselaton. See Sasypelaton. Sardes (now Sart). The capital of Lydia. There is the ground plot of a theatre, on a brow which unites with the hill of the citadel, and was called Pr/ow. Some pieces of the vault which supported seats, and completed the semicircle, remain. There are relicks of massive building. Marble piers sustain heavy fragments of arches of brick. There is a portion of a large edifice, with a heap of ponderous materials before and behind it. The walls are standing of two large and lofty long rooms, with a space between them, as in a passage. This remain, it has been conjectured, was the house of Croesus, once appropriated by the Sardeans as a place of retirement to superan- nuated citizens. It was called the Garusia, and in it, as some Roman authors have remarked, was exemplified the extreme durability of the ancient brick. (Vitr. 1. 2. c. 8. Plin. 35- 14.) The walls in this ruin have double arches beneath, and consist chiefly of this material, with layers of stone. The bricks are exceedingly fine and good, of different sizes, some flat and broad. A man was employed to procure one entire, but the cement proved so very hard and tenacious, that it was almost impossi- ble. Both Croesus and Mansolus, neither of whom could be suspected of parsimony, used them in building their palaces. It was a substance insusceptible of decay, and it is asserted, that if the walls were erected true to their perpendicular, they would without violence last for ever. The hill on which the citadel stood, appears from the ])lain, to be triangular. A double wall, besides outworks in ruin, remains of the fortress. In the walls are two or three fragments with inscriptions. Between the hill of the citadel and the mountain, are five columns, standing one without the capital, and one with the capi- tal awry, to the south. The architrave was of two stones. A piece remains of one column, but is moved southward. The other part, with the column which contri- buted to its support, has fallen since the year 169.9. The capital was then destroyed by an earthquake, and over the entrance of the naosor cell was a vast stone, which occa- sioned wonder by what art or power it could be raised. This fair and magnificent portal, as it is styled by the relator Chishull (p. 16), has since been destroyed, and in the heap lies that most huge and ponderous marble. Part of one of the antse is seen, about four](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22012035_0356.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
