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chap. The sculpture and the painting, visible in those 
t edifices, were frequently employed in licentious 
and detestable representations, such as were 
consistent with the orgies whereby public 
bagnios were degraded : and those who are at 
a loss to reconcile the pictured abominations of 
Baia with the solemnities of a temple, may 
admodum dissimilis est. Ptolemmo fortasse Taphros, Plinio vero Taphnr 
earn antiquis norainatara fiussc placet. Ilia postremis jam temporibus 
ante Gcnuensium in Tauricam adventum a maximo populo Mahomclico, 
qui ex Asia eo turn migraverant, culta et inhabitata fuissc vidctur. Nam 
templa seu dcltabra antique Mahomctica non solum in civitate ipsa, verum 
et ultra eivitatem, plurima admodum cum charactcribus Chalda'icis in 
grandioribus saxis cxcisis conspiciuntur. Tore* seu Tartari non pauci 
admodum incolae, Grteci tamen rariorcs, hoc referunt, quod majores sul 
constanter memiuerint, cam eivitatem a Pcrsarum olim geutc inhabitntam, 
pratstantem ac primariam fere officinam mccbanicarum artium quondam 
cam extitisse. Liquet sand cx ipsis minis, et loci amplitudine, urbem 
cam quondam clarissimam, et maximam gentium coloniam extitisse. 
Tartari ab eo loco Crimenses vulgo nunc appcllantur. Officinam moneta- 
riam quam Chanus cudit, in ea civitate perpetuam ltabent. In arce, quae 
maxima ad eivitatem est, uxores Chanorum perpetud asservantur et con- 
scuescunt.” Martini Proniavii Tartaria. L. Jiut. Ifi30. The author of 
the anonymous Pcriplus of the Euxine states the distance from the city of 
Panticajxeum to Cimmerium as equal to 250 stadia, or thirty-one miles 
two furlongs: and this coincides with the distance of Xertchy from Stura 
(-’rim. “ Aro it XluvriKot^xioa xahtvt uig K ippspou eraola of . Sic enim 
leg. Vossius in Peripl. Anonym. Pont. Euxin. p. 142. L. Put. 1697." 
Vossius adds, “ Ftolemceus hanc quoque mediterranean facit : nescio qua 
rail one. Cave autem confundas id oppidum cum altera ejusdeni nominis , 
quod <« r j atque it idem in ore Pospori." The fact is, that Stara 
Crim is tlie place alluded to by Ptolemy; answering, by its situation, to 
the distance assigned, both from Suda/t, and from Panticapecum, by the 
author of the anonymous Pcriplus. 
