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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![ZACYxNTHUS.—ZODARA. 3-25 Ybsambul gave birth to the ill-natured remark of Forbin, quoted in the note below to whom, however, Belzoni deals ample retribution. i i Zacynthus (now Zante, Greece). The only antiquity of note is a large block of marble, which serves at present as an altar in the church of Melinado, a ou six mi e from the capital. It contains an inscription (published by Chandler and Wright i the Hor« lonicae) which is in an inverted position, and measures but three teet square, being of nearly half that thickness. It is in high preservation, and seems to -indicate that there was a temple of Diana in the island. Plutarch (m inen ions ^ ® dium. The celebrated pitch or bituminous springs mentioned by Herodotus (Mei- vomene) are still known ; but not at the present well, which is on a spot two f|jr‘ongs distance from the shore, viz. a space surrounded by ® .‘j- seventy feet diameter, within which are three or four small pits. It is singular, that on thu spot the tedious process of extracting the bitumen is still in some measure the same, as that which Herodotus has described, and the same kind of instiumen is emp oyec . The ancient town of Zakunthos probably occupied the site of which is set on a lofty rock, rising on the port. (Dodw. i. 85.) A view of the island (vl. 8.) The monastery of Scopo is said to occupy the site of a temple. Hughes, 1. lo3-. - Zebe, or Zabe (now Zaah, Africa). Roman masonry all over the province. Shaw, 66. . T-kj -.o- ZetoUN (^Greece]. Remains of an ancient tower. IJoatv. n. 12:). ' Zeugis (Africa). Perhaps it was Zowwaan, Zagwan, vyhere there are rums ot a dome over a fountain, a bas-relief of a ram’s head with auxilio. Shaw, 97. ' ZiMENO, or Palaio-Arakoba (perhaps the AroUda of Herodotus). Ruihs; le walls of the Acropolis are in some places well preserved, and are. in the fourth styl o masonry. Dodw. i. 19d» ZoDARA. See Sakiel. . occidentale^. 1 merite, SVulJ'atiutor S'-rncTre n ^ en garnissent la facade. Voyage dans le Levant. Ail.fol. Paris, 1S19, p. 125. * “Le errand temple d’Abousamboul, prbs de la second cataracte b dieux cent pas sur la nve occic du Nil, n’a^point 4l6 decouvert par le Sr Belzoni: I’honorable M. Bankes, Voyageur d un trbs grand i .. . ’ ^ ,.r,r.r.ya ii airalf Ips nartics suDerieui'cs des statues colossal](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22012035_0443.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
