See also:ASPENDUS (mod. Balkis Kale , or, more anciently in the native See also:language, ESTVEDYS (whence the See also:adjective Estvedijys on coins)
, an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Pamphylia, very strongly situated on an isolated See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill on the right See also:bank of the See also:Eurymedon at the point where. the See also:river issues from the See also:Taurus
.
The See also:sea is now about 7 M. distant, and the river is navigable only for about 2 M. from the mouth; but in the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:Thucydides See also:ships could See also:anchor off See also:Aspendus
.
Really of pre-Hellenic date, the See also:place claimed to be an Argive See also:colony
.
It derived See also:wealth from See also:great salines and from a See also:trade in oil and See also:wool, to which the wide range of its admirable coinage bears See also:witness from the 5th See also:century B.C. onwards
.
There See also:Alcibiades met the See also:- SATRAP [Pers. Khshatrapavan, i.e." protector (superintendent) of the country (or district)," Heb. sakhshadrapan, Gr. taerpan-ris (insc. of Miletus, Sitzungsber. Berl. Ak. 1900, 112), E% u3pa7eixav (insc. of Mylasa, Dittenberger, Sylloge, 95), ital. p6. rr
satrap See also:Tissaphernes in 411 B.C., and thence succeeded in getting the Phoenician See also:fleet, intended to co-operate with See also:Sparta, sent back See also:home
.
The Athenian, See also:Thrasybulus, after obtaining contributions from Aspendus in 389, was murdered by the inhabitants
.
The city bought off See also:Alexander in 333, but, not keeping faith, was forcibly occupied by the conqueror
.
In due course it passed from Pergamene to See also:Roman dominion, and according to See also:Cicero, was plundered of many See also:artistic treasures by See also:Verres
.
It was ranked by See also:Philostratus the third city of Pamphylia, and in See also:Byzantine times seems to have been known as Primopolis, under which name its See also:bishop signed at See also:Ephesus in A.D
.
431
.
In See also:medieval times it was evidently still a strong place, but it has now sunk, in the See also:general decay of Pamphylia, to a wretched See also:hamlet
.
.
The ruins still extant are very remarkable, and, with the See also:noble Roman See also:theatre, the finest in the See also:world, have earned for the place (as is the See also:case with certain other great monuments) a legendary connexion with See also:Solomon's Sheban See also:queen
.
On the See also:summit of the hillock, surrounded by a See also:wall with three See also:gates, See also:lie the remains of the city
.
The public buildings See also:round the See also:forum can all be traced, and parts of them are See also:standing to a considerable height
.
They consist of a See also:fine nympheum on the See also:north with a covered theatre behind it, covered See also:market halls on the See also:west, and a See also:peristyle See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall and a See also:basilica on the See also:east
.
In the See also:plain below are large thermae, and ruins of a splendid See also:aqueduct
.
But all else seems insignificant beside the huge theatre, See also:half hollowed out of the north-east flank of the hill
.
This was first published by C
.
F
.
M
.
Texier in 1849, and has now been completely planned, &c., by See also:Count Lanckoronski's expedition in 1884
.
It is built of See also:local See also:conglomerate and is in marvellous preservation
.
Erected to the See also:honour of the emperors See also:Marcus Aurelius and L
.
Verus by the architect See also:Zeno, for the heirs of a local Roman See also:citizen (as an inscription repeated over both portals attests), its auditorium has a See also:circuit of 313,17 feet
.
There are See also:forty tiers of seating, divided by one diazoma, and crowned by an arched See also:gallery of rather later date, repaired in places with See also:brick
.
This auditorium held 7500 spectators
.
The seats are not perfect, but so nearly so as to appear practically intact
.
The wooden See also:stage has, of course, perished, but all its supporting structures are in place, and the great scena wall stands to its full height, and produces a magnificent impression whether from within or from without
.
Inwardly it was decorated with two orders of columns one above the other, with See also:rich entablatures, much of which survives
.
In the tympanum is a See also:relief of Bacchus (wrongly supposed to be of a See also:female, and called the Bal-Kis, i.e
.
" See also:Honey Girl ")
.
The position of the See also:sounding See also:board above the stage is apparent
.
Under the forepart of the auditorium, built out from the hill, are immense vaults
.
The whole structure was enclosed within one great wall, pierced with numerous windows
.
This structure was probably put to some ecclesiastical Byzantine use, as certain mutilated heads of See also:saints appear upon it; and later it became a fortress
and received certain additions
.
It is now under the care of the local aghd and not allowed to be plundered for See also:building See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone
.
See C
.
Lanckoronski, Villes de la Pamphylie et de la Pisidie, i
.
(1890)
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.
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