Cyprus : Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples: A Narrative of Researches and Excavations During Ten Years' Residence as American Consul in that Island |
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Page 35 - Baglioni, Martinengo, and Quirini were executed in the presence of Bragadino, for whom a more terrible death was reserved ; the executioner cut off his nose and ears : three times he was made to lay his head on the block, as if to be beheaded, then, heavily chained, was thrown into a dark dungeon and left for nine days in that miserable condition. On the tenth day, by order of Mustafa, Bragadino was brought out of prison and made to carry earth for the repair of the fortifications during several...
Page 264 - ... Persepolis, they had already conquered. It will be observed that the capitals of their columns frequently assume the shape of Assyrian religious types, the bull for instance ; whilst other portions of them nearly resemble in the form of their ornaments, though not in their proportions, those of Egypt. The Persians introduced into Asia Minor the arts, and religion, which they received from the Assyrians. Thus the Harpy Tomb, and the monument usually attributed to Harpagus at Xanthus...
Page 189 - ... This I had opportunities of remarking during my residence there, and I have been assured by competent persons that only forty years ago the capital of the island contained more Turks than Christians; at the present day the latter are in a large majority. The crime of abortion is extensively practiced among the Turkish population, and the Turkish midwives flourish every-where. I have spoken of this to Turks, who were intelligent and upright enough to condemn the system, but they invariably added...
Page 361 - ... and over all a short white cloak ; they have sandals peculiar to the country, very like the Boeotian clogs. They wear long hair, binding their heads with turbans, and anoint the whole body with perfumes. Every man has a seal, and a staff curiously wrought ; and on every staff is carved either an apple, a rose, a lily, an eagle, or something of the kind ; for it is not allowable to wear a stick without a device.
Page 63 - ... high, was then built around its inner base. The width in no case exceeded the height. Upon the platform the dead were laid, with the head always towards the entrance. These oven-shaped tombs were made to contain in most cases three bodies, yet in many of them the remains of two only were remarked, one on the right and the other on the left of the doorway. When the latter was the case, the funeral vases and other mortuary objects composing the furniture of the tomb were invariably found placed...
Page 338 - Hadrian and completed by Antoninus Pius. This aqueduct is still in use, having been repaired in 1869. In Sicily, the works by which Empedocles, it is said, brought the water into the town of Selinus, are no longer visible; but it is probable that, like those of Syracuse, they consisted chiefly of tunnels and pipes laid under the ground. Syracuse was supplied by two aqueducts, one of which the Athenians destroyed (Thuc.
Page 13 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Page 295 - ... Then follows the description of the famous treasure chambers beneath a site on which some granite columns were lying, the description which has been discredited by investigators of a later period. " The city of Curium had three entrances, one on the south, one on the west, and a third on the north, near the present road to Paphos ; the first and second are still visible. The southern entrance, a square opening hewn in the rock, is 56 feet wide. A flight of steps led up to the gate, bridge, or...
Page 63 - ... found placed upon the unoccupied portion of the platform which faced the door ; but when the three spaces were occupied, the objects were deposited on the ground towards the head of each body. In some few instances a reversed earthenware plate was found placed under the head, serving as a pillow to the dead. As may readily be conceived, tombs such as these, made of nothing but earth, were not very substantial, and in many instances were found caved in, with all the contents broken. Yet a very...