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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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given in Sir Wm. Gells Pompeiana (vol. * For a comparative view of different Sicilian theatres, as well as of anotherodeum at Catania, which, in fact, nearly equals in size the theatre of Acrse, Iwill refer the reader to Serradifalco (vol. v, plate 44), and to Col. Leakes Tow-in Asia Minor (p. 328), for the diameters of many Grecian theatres and of twoodea. Also the students attention should be directed to the same learnedauthors exposition (ibid. pp. 323-8) of Vitruviuss construction of the Romantheatre, and of the orchestra of the Greek theatre. t Spratt and Forbes, vol. i, p. 256. See the plan of the ruins of Cibyra, byCapt. Spratt. VOL. II. S 252 ON THE THEATRE, ODEUM, AND OTHER MONUMENTS ii, p. 247), it is called Theatrum tectum; also, its immediateproximity to the real, or great theatre, with which it com-municated by a portico, clearly determines that it was so.* Among the sepulchral monuments represented in the work bySerradifalcof is one of a somewhat pyramidal form, crowned,
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Stela at Acrfe. as the duke writes, by a Doric entablature with a dentilledcornice, and by a gable with angular antefixes. In the frontof this monument, a large square case (shrine) is seen, in thebottom of which there is a hollow% which denotes the outlineof an allusive statue of pottery,+ which occupied it; and in theplain cornice of the case are to be seen two other small circularhollows that contained votive rings. * See plate 73 in Gells Avork, for a good view of the interior of this odeum;and for the plan of it, and scale on which it is drawn, consult ibid., plate 64. t Vol. iv, plate 33. The statue is shewn to a larger scale in the vignette,p. 156, No. 3. X From these may have originated the small shrines with the figures of theMadonna, so common in Sicily, Italy, etc, OF ACR.E IN SICILY. 253 This monument becomes a most important one, because itdistinctly shews the use for which the frequent little Doricentablatures might have been intended, all designed after thelike fashion,

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