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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![to the Syrian goddess ; a large oblong cistern, or tank, hewn in the rock, and once coated with a cement- It is 23 yards long, and Id broad. Walpole^ i. 38. Thymbria (Greece). Probably situated at a village half a mile from Myus, where are vestiges of ancient building. Chandler, Asia Min. Idd, Ib’y. Tibbel-el-Mokatt Beh. The antiquities, says Niehbuhr, discovered by Norden, can be no other than Egyptian. The ground is covered with stones from 5 to 7 feet long, inscribed with hieroglyphicks, and some of them standing on end, while others are lying flat. 'Ihe more carefully they are examined, so much the more certainly do they appear to be sepulchral stones. At one end of the building seems to have been a small cham- ber of which the roof still remains. It is supported upon square pillars, and these, as well as the walls of the chambers, are covered with hieroglyphicks. Through the whole building are various busts in the Egyptian manner. The hieroglyphicks were as well executed as those of Egypt, but from the occurrence of the goat, an animal common in this country, but never appearing in Egyptian monuments, he thinks that it might be the work of colonists, or the Arabs, who conquered Egypt under the Shepherd kings. [Most probably of Egyptians whom they compelled to work at it, as the Jews were forced to make bricks in Egypt.] Nieh. Arab. i. 203, seq. English Translation. Tiberias Lake (Palestine). Ruins of a causeway of masonry, bearing marks of great antiquity, to be traced along the side of the lake. Light, 207. Tibur, (the modern Tivoli). The elegant and accomplished Cornelia Knight has published a very full account of this famous place and its antiquities. It was the Twickenham or Richmond of Imperial Rome. Near the Ponte dell Aquoria is a grotto of difficult access, which appears to have been a subterraneous temple, and is supposed to have been that of Tellus or the Earth. Latiiim, p. 224. Near the entrance of the town is a small church called la Madonna della Tosse, formerly the temple of Tussis, or the goddess of coughs. It is a rotunda with a cu- pola and niches for statues, and has a picturesque aspect, p. 224- Miss Starke says (ii. 53) that it is quite entire, and resembles tbe temple of Minerva Medica at Rome. Others make it a sepulchre. Eustace, ii. 248. The road from Rome to Tivoli begins at the gate of S. Lorenzo, and the church was anciently the temple of Neptune. The choir is supported by beautiful columns, with the frieze above remaining entire, and ornamented with trophies of exquisite work. All the road is bordered by fragments of fine tombs. At a very little distance from the lake Albula, now the Solfatara, are ruins supposed to be therms erected by Agrippa, though called by the peasants ruins of the palace of Zenobia. The tomb of the Plau- tian family is a tower, about two miles from Tivoli. There are ruins of the villa of the Piso family, near the spot where that of Adrian was afterwards erected, and an- tiques have been found. Brutus and Cassius had villas. At a place called San Anto- nio are ruins, which probably belonged to the villa of Zenobia. The place is still called Concha. Golden bracelets and other female ornaments have been found. At San Antonio are the ruins of the villa of Syphax, vanquished by Scipio, who died here in 552. A beautiful bason, a fountain and other remains, have been discovered. On the north bank of the Teverone are ruins of the villa of the Caesarian family (233). I'hc ruins of the villa of Mycenas, afterwards of Augustus, are substructions. These consist of vast rooqis and arches. Above this foundation, as appears from the rooms, were two rows of columns, one of the Dorick the other of the lonick, which formed two porticoes round the whole of the building (235)- Between these porticoes](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22012035_0419.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
