. A dictionary of the Bible .. . of the co-lumns supporting it are G feet 4J inches at about35 feet below the capital. The present soil (appa-rently formed by the crumbling away of the hillwhich backs the temple on its eastern side) is moiethan 25 feet above the pavement. Such propor-tions are not inferior to those of the columns in theHeraeum at Samos, which divides, in the estimationof Herodotus, with the Artemisium at Ephesus, thepalm of pre-eminence among all the works of Greekait. And as regards the details, the capitals ap-peared, to Mr. Cockerell, to surpass any specimenof the Ionic he
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . of the co-lumns supporting it are G feet 4J inches at about35 feet below the capital. The present soil (appa-rently formed by the crumbling away of the hillwhich backs the temple on its eastern side) is moiethan 25 feet above the pavement. Such propor-tions are not inferior to those of the columns in theHeraeum at Samos, which divides, in the estimationof Herodotus, with the Artemisium at Ephesus, thepalm of pre-eminence among all the works of Greekait. And as regards the details, the capitals ap-peared, to Mr. Cockerell, to surpass any specimenof the Ionic he had seen in perfection of design andexecution. On the nortii side of the acropolis,overlooking the valley of the Hermus, is a theatrenear 400 teet in diameter, attached to a stadium ofabout 1000. This probably was erected after therestonation of Sardis by Alexander. In the attackof Sardis by Antiochus, described by Polybius (), it constituted one of the chief points onwhich, after entering the city, the assaulting force. was directed. The temple belongs to the era of theLydian dynasty, and is nearly contemporaneouswith the temple of Zeus Panhellenius in Aegina,and that of Herfe in Samos. To the same date maybe assigned the Vallev of Sweets ( y\vKvs ay-Kcliv), a pleasure ground, the fame of which Poly-crates endeavoui-ed to rival by the so-called Lauraat Samos. The modern name of the ruins at Sardis is Sert-Kalcssi. Travellers describe the appearance of theloeility on approaching it from the N-W. as thatof complete solitude. The Pactolus is a mere threadof water, all but evanescent in summer time. TheWadis-tchni (Hermus), in the neighbourhood of thetown, is between 50 and 60 yards wide, and feet deep, but its waters are turbid and disagree-able, and are not only avoided as unfit for drinking,but have the local rcjnitation of generating the feverwhich is the scourge of the neighbouring plains. In the time of the emperor Tiberius, Sardis was desolated by an earth
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