Identifier: accountofdiscov00fell (find matches)
Title: An account of the discoveries in Lycia, being a journal kept during a second excursion in Asia Minor
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Fellows, Charles
Subjects:
Publisher: London, Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
esting upon the columns or upright stems of treeson the outside; stones placed under these, to preventtheir sinking into the ground, form bases, while thebeams resting upon their tops appear as capitals; infront, a stone or piece of wood is placed upon theseposts, to support the ends of the beams, which are thedentils in the frieze of this simple little building. In this portion of Asia Minor all the remains of thetemples show a square chamber or cella, entered by anornamented door of noble proportions; this is alwayswithin a portico in antis, sometimes having two co-lumns in front. I have nowhere in Lycia seen anytrace of temples that I could say with certainty were ofother construction. This form is evidently seen in thehuts here represented. Is it not highly probable, thatthese sketches may represent the huts and storehousesof the people of three thousand years ago, which at anafter period were imitated in stone, and their forms cutin the rocks, making the temple a large house, and
Text Appearing After Image:
VALLEY OF THE XANTHUS. 131 the tomb a durable receptacle for the dead ? Time haswitnessed these changes; but the simple hut, which hasserved as the abode of the peasants through successivegenerations to the present day, has remained unaltered.This may at once explain the total absence of even thetrace of the residence of the people in the ancient Greekcities, as the materials would not endure for half a cen-tury: the public buildings alone remain to point out theextent of the cities. I think this idea is borne outby the incidental testimony of history. Herodotusspeaks of the houses of the people of Sardis as being ofreeds and mud, and in still earlier days we know thatthe whole of Athens was built of wood. Our ride of about twenty-four miles from Hoorahn toDooveer was nearly due south ; we crossed the smallermuddy river, where it is divided into several streams,and skirted the western side of the upper bay or en-largement of the valley, until it became narrowed intoa mere strait by th

Note About Images