Proceedings of the expedition to explore the northern coast of Africa, from Tripoly eastward : $b in MDCCCXXI. and MDCCCXXII., comprehending an account of the Greater Syrtis and Cyrenaica; and of the ancient cities composing the pentapolisBeechey, Frederick William
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Proceedings of the expedition to explore the northern coast of Africa, from Tripoly eastward : $b in MDCCCXXI. and MDCCCXXII., comprehending an account of the Greater Syrtis and Cyrenaica; and of the ancient cities composing the pentapolis
Beechey, Frederick William
Sidra, Gulf of (Libya); Tripoli (Libya) -- Antiquities; Tripoli (Libya) -- Discovery and exploration
[Footnote 4: The turrets attached to the walls are also described
by the same author as _round_; and it is difficult to imagine what
could have occasioned this mistake, since they are all of them
quadrangular, as will appear by the plan.]
[Footnote 5: Le mura della città sono talmenti tapezzate di Grechi
inscrizioni che forse trovansi qui registrati tutti gli annali di
questa città. (Viaggio da Tripoli, &c. p. 199.)]
[Footnote 6: The practice of burying the body entire was, however,
very frequently adopted by the Greeks in other places, as we shall
hereafter have occasion to mention.]
[Footnote 7: Plans and sections of some of the tombs will be found
in page 367, and we think the reader will not be able to trace so
much resemblance between the style of Teuchira and that of Cyrene
as Signor Della Cella has discovered, when he tells us that “Il
fabricato di Tochira, dello stessissimo stile di quello di Cirene,
la stessa copia, e struttura di tombi, conferma ciocchè di questa
città lasciò scritto Erodoto, _che usava le stesse leggi de’
Cirenei_.”—(Page 199.)]
[Footnote 8: Vi si scorgono pure gli avanzi di un tempio che io
credo essere stato dedicato a Bacco, a giudicarne da’ capitelli,
che giaciano affastellati fra le sue rovine, guarniti di foglie di
viti con grappoli pendenti.—(P. 199.)]
[Footnote 9: We mean, of course, in their present ruined state,
for the original height of the wall cannot now be ascertained.]
[Footnote 10: These divisions, composing the Naustathmos, were termed
ορμοι (ormoi), υφορμοι (uphormoi), or ναυλοκοι (naulokoi), as mentioned
in the account of the ports and harbours at the end of the Narrative.]
[Footnote 11: See account of ports and harbours, (p. 21).]
[Footnote 12: Ibid.]
[Footnote 13: 480 feet less.]
[Footnote 14: 480 less.]
[Footnote 15: 440 more.]
[Footnote 16: See plate.]
CHAPTER XIV.
JOURNEY FROM PTOLEMETA TO MERGE.
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