4Q8 ARCHITECTURAL REMAINS AT MYLASA. 



and its driver, employed then, as many now are, in bringing wood 

 from the mountains for sale*. 



Beneath (he hill, on the east side of the town, is an arch or gate, 

 way of marble, of the Corinthian order. On the key-stone of the 

 exterior front, which is eastward, we observed a double-hatcher, as 

 on the two marbles near My us. It was with difficulty we procured 

 ladders to reach the top j and some were broken, before we could 

 find three sufficiently long and strong for our purpose. The going 

 up, when these were united, was not without danger. The Aga 

 had expressed some wonder at our employment, as described to 

 him ; and seeing one of my companions on the arch, from a win- 

 dow of his house, which was opposite, pronounced him, as we 

 were told, a brave fellow, but without brains. We desired him to 

 accept our umbrella, on his sending to purchase it for a present to 

 a lady of his harem, who was going into the country. By the 

 arch was a fountain, to which women came with earthen pitchers 

 for water, and with their faces muffled. 



\Ve saw a broad marble pavement, with vestiges of a theatre, 

 near the Corinthian column. Toward the centre of the town, we 

 observed a small pool of water, and by it the massive arches of 

 some public edifice. In the court of the Aga's house was an 

 altar much ornamented. We found an altar likewise in the 

 street*, and a pedestal or two half buried, with pieces of antient 

 wall. Round the town are ranges of broken columns, the* rem. 

 Hants of porticoes, now, with rubbish, bounding the vineyards. 

 A large portion of the plain is covered with scattered fragments, 

 and with piers of ordinary aqtiaeducts ; besides inscriptions, mostly 

 ruined and illegible. Some altars, dedicated to Hecatomnus, have 

 been discovered. 



About a quarter of a mile from the town is a sepulchre +, of the 

 species called by the ancients, Distga or Double-roofed. It coiv 

 sisted of two square rooms. In the lower, which has a door.way, 

 were deposited the urns with the ashes of the deceased. In the 

 upper, the relations and friends solemnized the anniversary of the 

 funeral, and performed stated rites. A hole made through the 

 floor, was designed for pouring libations of honey, milk, or wine, 

 with which it was usual to gratify the manes or spirits. The roof 

 U remarkable for its construction, but two stones are wanting, and 

 lome distorted. It is supported by pillars of the Corinthian order, 



Strabo, p. 659. 



t See a liiniUr edifice iuMountfaucoo, t. 5. tab. 27. 



