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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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ostand on. (See some excellent remarks on this subject in the Gent.s Mag.,June, and August, 1851.) 9.—Rev. I. G. Sheppaud, M.A., F.R.L.S. Thcophrasti Characteres; loithNotes Psychological and Critical. 8vo. Longmans, 1852. This book has been forwarded to us, and calls for a few remarks, though, intruth, its bearing upon classical antiquities has not that dependence upon artwhich would bring it properly within the scope of our journal. The book con-tains 260 pages of comment and criticism to the 26 pages of revised text, andfully deserves the attention of the University students and higher classes inschools, for whose behoof the commentary has been, with much care andlearning, written and composed. THE MUSEUM OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITIES. No. VI.—JUNE 1852. VIII. ON THE ANCIENT CITY AND PORT OF SELEUCIA PIERIA. FKOM OBSEKVATTONS MADE DUKING A RESIDENCE AT STIEDIAHIN THE YEARS 1846 TO 1849. jjp JEBEL MOUS/l o;j „pes ^ 6000 .f«* *yA _ ^Ou^ =^ ^° c M, .e^^**irriiii)t^^^^ ^o,^ Ras el t
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Plan of the ancient City of Seleucia Pieria. By William Holt Yates, M.D.The Survey of the Port by Capt. William Allen, E.N. 18.W. THE Bay of Antioch extends between the Ras-el-Khanzyrand Cape Posideum, a distance, from point to point, ofabout twenty miles. The Valley of Suediah occupies the hol-low or centre of the bay, beginning at the base of Jebel Akrah,or Mount Casius, (a picturesque mountain, which tapers to theheight of about six thousand feet,) and terminating at the VOL. II. I 112 ON THE ANCIENT CITY AND PORT ancient port and city of Seleucia, where Mount Rhossiis, orJebel Moosa, an arm of the Amanus range, reaches the sea. Itis m latitude 36° 3 N., longitude 35° 59 E., and includes thebeautiful valley of the Lower Orontes, which, after collectingthe water from the Vale of Hamath and the Toorkoman plains,here falls into the Mediterranean. The city of Seleucia derived its name from Seleucus, itsfounder, who, at the death of Alexander the Great, obtainedSyria for a possession,

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