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Title: The palaces of Crete and their builders
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Mosso, A. (Angelo), 1846-1910
Subjects: Palaces
Publisher: London, Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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forth near the base of brown wood form a group of new trees.
Upon a shining granite column I read the name of Septimus
Severus ; this is a mark of homage often paid to one of the
emperors. The vivid red colouring still shines from within the
lettering. Fragments of precious Cipollino marble, with beautiful
veinings, lie in a ditch among rushes and water lilies.

VII.

I could often have imagined myself in the Roman Campagna.
The flocks of crows with their notched wings, cawing as they
flew round the ruins of the prastorium, reminded me of the baths
of Caracalla, but in this Cretan landscape there is more poetic
feeling ; the columns and the ancient capitals have been left in
place to support the trellised vines, while here and there a great
capital of Pentelic marble, with acanthus leaves carved in mar-
vellous relief, is built into a boundary wall among the loose
stones. Another similar capital was standing in the village street ;
it had been hollowed out like a cistern, and served as a drinking-
trough for the cattle.

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FIG. 46 —TABLET IN HONOUR OF MARCUS AURELIUS AND LUCIUS VERUS.

THE RUINS OF GORTYNA 107

Bases of pillars, triglyphs, and metopes had been pushed aside
to the edge of the road to clear the field for the plough. Where-
ever an entrance is opened into field or vineyard some pediment
or sculptured fragment is always found. A stone, with archaic
inscription, which had been cast into the foundations of the
basilica, saw the light again when the walls were overthrown by


FIG. 47—ROMAN BATHS OF GORTYNA

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