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Title: The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896 Wood, J. E Davies, Benjamin Rees
Subjects: Classical antiquities Archaeology
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ntain nothing but lead, and shortly afterwards wentback to Asia, carrying with him his gold, concealed in the images of the godshe worshipped: or perhaps they were that of Jupiter, in which Menelaus sacri-ficed on hearing of the rape of Helen, as recorded by Ptolemy Hephsestion. Itcould not have been the temple of Apollo mentioned by Stephanus, for that wasin the centre of the city, in the Pythium. Among the columns of these ruinsare some of great beauty, adorned with spiral flutings, and 2 ft. 4 in. diameter. One finds among the ruins of Gortyna columns of red and white jasper,similar to the jasper of Cosme, in Languedoc; others like that of Campan,employed at Versailles. VOL. II. U 284 descrizione dell isola di candia, 1588. Quarry^ or Labyrinth. At the distance of one mile* from Gortyna, on the line of hill upon which is built the Castello-nuovo, is an ancient quarry,! in the form of a grotto, the intricacy of which has caused it to be mistaken for the famous Labyrinth. It supplied
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Plan of the Labyrinth of Gortyna.t the stone for building the city of Gortyna, and is entirely arti-ficial, as is evident from the wheel-ruts of the carriages used inconveying the stone through the quarry, and also from the There are but few statues, the Venetians having carried away all the best.The statue on the fountain of Canea, which was brought from this city, is finelydraped. The head has been knocked off by the Turks (in their abhorrence ofidolatry).—(Tournefort, Relation dtm Voyage dti Levant, 1. 58.) Blainville says of Gortyna— Never have I seen such prodigious masses ofruins, of granite, porphyry, and the finest marble, as are here observed heapedtogether. (Blainville, Letters from the Levant, quoted by Hockh, Creta, 1. 400.) * The distance is generally described as being three miles. t Said to be constructed by Ptolemy Philopater. X From Siebers Reise. THE ANTIQUITIES OF CANDIA. NO. I. 285 marks of tools which are still visible. The entrance is by asmall hole.* It exte

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