The palaces of Crete and their builders . modern villagenear Gortyna is called, it occurred to Manoli to draw off thewater from the mill, of which he is part proprietor, and after asearch along the bed of the stream he saw the circular wall uponwhich the famous inscription is carved ^ (Fig. 42). The surroundings among which this page of ancient legislationlies deserted, the sounding waters of the river Lethoeus, therushes which grow at the base of the inscription—all form so Professors Halbherr and Fabricius studied it in 1884. and Protessor Com-paretti illustrated it in Le Leggi di Gortina, M
The palaces of Crete and their builders . modern villagenear Gortyna is called, it occurred to Manoli to draw off thewater from the mill, of which he is part proprietor, and after asearch along the bed of the stream he saw the circular wall uponwhich the famous inscription is carved ^ (Fig. 42). The surroundings among which this page of ancient legislationlies deserted, the sounding waters of the river Lethoeus, therushes which grow at the base of the inscription—all form so Professors Halbherr and Fabricius studied it in 1884. and Protessor Com-paretti illustrated it in Le Leggi di Gortina, Montimenti .{ntichi, R. Lincei, 1903, vol. iii. THE RUINS OF GORTYNA 93 poetic a landscape, that I cannot refrain from giving here thenotes which I made on the spot. M^/y \-June, 1906. On the right, near the theatre, are the ruins of a large Byzantine church dedicated to S. Titus ; in front of this church are the remains of the ancient piazza, the agora of the Greeks, which has been excavated a short time since (Fig. 43). The. ^SS^HK^oS^^HPi ^^^K^ .^&«\ ^.^^^^^^^^^B^^^^^^H ^^^^^^^ >-^||B|m WBB I ^^^ - -.^—*^-^^r;-„^-r-i- \ . ^ - v% w/IBckS^Sb^^ FIG. 42.—THE LAWS OF GORTYNA. branches of the century-old olive trees, with their gnarled trunks,bear a pale mantle of melancholy leaves. Behind the olives thedark, funereal green of the cypresses forms a strong contrast, andthese slender trees rise up against the sky like minarets beside thecupolas of a mosque. To the right of the river Lethoeus the remains of the Romantheatre, Iving in the hollow of a little valley, show as a reddishpatch among the golden heads of corn which rise from theorchestra. The breeze from the mountain ruffles the dense 94 PALACES OF CRETE AXD THEIR BUILDERS green foliage of the fig trees and diffuses the acrid smell of thejuice like incense. This theatre did not suffice for the Romans, and they builtanother on the left bank of the torrent, using the material of theancient Greek edifices. T
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