Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . No. 119.—Entablature and capital of the Roman Propylaeum. Scale i: 15. The above-mentioned Roman ])ortico, which was visible on the block of debris G on Plan I., and of which a far projecting slab is marked / on the engraving, p. 264, No. 144, in Ilios, appears to have formed the western 15 2IO GREEK AND ROMAN ILIUM [Chap. V. boundary of this tcmcnos. The length of this porticocannot now be dete
Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . No. 119.—Entablature and capital of the Roman Propylaeum. Scale i: 15. The above-mentioned Roman ])ortico, which was visible on the block of debris G on Plan I., and of which a far projecting slab is marked / on the engraving, p. 264, No. 144, in Ilios, appears to have formed the western 15 2IO GREEK AND ROMAN ILIUM [Chap. V. boundary of this tcmcnos. The length of this porticocannot now be determined. The width between the axes ofthe columns, which stood on two marble steps on the eastside of the portico, was 2 30 m. and contained three marbletriglyphs in the entablature. Of the other Doric edifices there exist only a few capitalsand entablatures ; we cannot, therefore, make up the plan ofthem. Of Corinthian edifices I discovered no other thanthe before-mentioned portico in the lower city (p. 26). Itscolumns, being of syenite, are of course not fluted; the. No. 120.—Restored view of the Roman Propylaeum. Scale i: xoo. capitals and the entablature are of white marble. Many ofthe small foundations in the Greek and Roman stratumof Ilium seem to have served for erecting statues. Much larger still than any flne of all the edifices hithertomentioned is the gigantic theatre, which is immediately tothe east of the Acropolis (see Plan VIII.), and of which Ibrought to light the lower part of the stage-buildings, thewalls of which are nearly all preserved to the height of ametre. The accompanying sketch. No. 121, represents itsground plan. §!•] THE GREAT THEATRE OF ILIUM. 211 The theatre was most magnificently ornamented withmarble columns, of the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthianorders, of which, as well as of the entablature, I foundthousands of fragments ; and it was moreover completelycased with marble, as is proved by some remains of thecasing which are still in sittc. W
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