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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![SI DON —SMYRNA. hill, about six miles near to Patrae, and supposes it Agira ; and at Vostitza [the ancient Agion, Dodwell, ii. 305*] the ruin of a small ancient building at the west end of the town, and in front of an old church a fine relief of a lion siezing a horse. What Chandler says of a thick wall on the sea-shore, as perhaps Helcie, is confuted by Mr. podwell (ii. 304), because he says the coast being subject to earthquakes, it has been ingulphed in the sea. SiDON. Remains of an ancient harbour still exist to the south. Light, 208. SiGEAN Promontory (Troad). Tumuli called of Achilles and Patroclus.iiC/aryte iii. 90. See the next article, and Troy. ’ SiGEUM. Now Giaurkoi which occupies the site of the Acropolis or citadel, and a mean church towards the brow of Mount Ida, that of the Athenoeum or temple of Minerva, of which the scattered marbles by it are remains. The famous Sigean in- scription lay on the right hand of the entrance. There were other fragments and inscriptions. Sigeum was built out of the ruins of Troy, and this temple was suffered to remain. Chandler mentions barrows of Achilles and Patroclus, and that of Antilo- chus, son of Nestor, which last had a fragment or two of white marble, on the top, as also another on the right hand, not far off, which Chandler thinks was that of Pene- leus, one of the leaders of the Boeotians, who was slain by Eurypilus. They likewise saw the barrow of Ajax Telamon, and at a distance from it, on the side next Lectes, that of .^syetes, mentioned by Homer. Thus Chandler, As. Min. 42. See Troy. SiGNiA (Italy). See Segni. SiLSiLis (Selseleh, Egypt). In the Grande Description (a. vol. i. pi. 47.) is a view of the grottoes here, cut at the entry of some ancient quarries. They resemble the front of a temple with columns, cornices, &c. Belzoni (352) calls the place Sil- sili, or the chain of mountains. There are, he says, several interesting burial-places among the quarries of the rocks, and it is evident that the famous sphinxes and rams’ heads which are to be seen in Carnak have been taken from this spot, as one of the same kind is to be seen carved in the rock and partly removed from the rocks to the Nile, and another like it is nearly cut out of the quarry. Denon seems to mistake the spot, for he says (iii. 15.) from the foundation of a temple, and a few courses of the basement of a portico, the w'hole covered with hieroglyphics, Silsilis may be at a place called Corn-el-Achmart, in the course of a canal, between Bassalier and El Moccat. SiNUEssA (Italy). There are some vestiges, and the name is still preserved. Near Monte Dracone are some ruins of edifices which extend even to the sea shore, where, without doubt, were the large walls of the port. Enc. des Antiquith. SiRMiONE (Promontory in Italy). On the further summit of a hill stand the walls of an old building, said to be a Roman bath, and near it a vault, called the grotto of Catullus. Eustace, i. 202. SiTiPHA CoLONiA (now Setcof Africa). Inscriptions. Shaw, 53. Slongeah (between Testonie and Bazelbab, on the banks of the Mejordah, Africa). Inscriptions. Shaw, 99. Smyrna. There are remains of the old wall of a solid massive construction, the work of Antigonus, and finished by Lysimachus. At the western gate-way, at which you enter from the town, was once a fountain, now dry. By this, is or was, a mar- ble colossal head, the face much injured, of Apollo, or, as some have supposed, of Smyrna, the Amazon, from whom the place was named. The ground-plot of the stadium is stripped of its marble seats and decorations. One side, on the slope of the mountain, was raised on a vaulted substruction, which remains. It appears](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22012035_0366.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
