of the Greco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 23 
cipally regard the critical department of my labours, as connected with the sup- 
plements which I have ventured to introduce in order to the completion of the 
sense, I have judged it best to reserve them for a more convenient opportunity. 
I pass now to the second, which I have mentioned as possessing a claim on 
our attention from its probably marking the site of the Temple of Bacchus, of 
which Vitruvius has left us some notices. It appears from a comparison of two 
passages in his work, that this edifice was a Hexastyle Monopteros, and that Her- 
mogenes of Alabanda had been the architect employed in its erection. A pro- 
bable inference from another is, that it was of the Ionic order : and it is described 
by him as having been a model of symmetry in its exhibiting an accuracy of pro- 
portion between the diameters of the columns, their heights, and the spaces be- 
tween them, of which Rome itself possessed no example.* 
There yet remain vestiges of these distinctive marks amongst the ruins from 
which the following titulus was copied. The order appears to have been that 
which Vitruvius mentions; but it would require the skill of a professional tra- 
veller to elicit from the mass of confusion the exact proportions which he states 
to have been observed. 
One circumstance, however, is remarkable. A portion of the zophorus of 
a column yet remains, adjacent to the fragment which bears the inscription, ex- 
hibiting the well-known Dionysiac symbol, the Bull’s head, which procured for 
the god his poetical name of Tadpos, and his epithets, Bovxépws, tavpopophos, 
and Tavpoperwros.t 
Does it not appear reasonable to suppose, that a more detailed research 
amongst the ruins, beneath as well as above the surface, would bring to light 
other interesting confirmations of this fact? The principal of these would be, 
next to actual ¢¢wl declaratory thereof, the symmetrical arrangement of the 
columns according to the moduli of Vitruvius, which he states to have been first 
established by the architect of Alabanda. 
In short, I should recommend the same kind of research in the case of this 
temple, that Cockerell many years since has suggested in the instance of the Me- 
* Vitruvius, De Architect. iv. 3. p. 111, Bipont. 
{ Athenzus, ii. 38, e. Sophocl. ap. Strab. xy. 1. (vol. iii. p. 180, Tau.) Orph. Hymn. xxix. 4. 
(Eschenb.) Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, xxxy. (Moral. vol. iii. p. 32, Tau.) 
