 | William John Hamilton - Armenia - 1842 - 600 pages
...these, as affording a better footing than the smooth grass, as we ascended to the summit. Here we found the remains of a foundation nearly eighteen feet square,...placed there as an ornament on the apex of the tumulus. Herodotus says that phalli were erected upon the summit of some of these tumuli, of which this may... | |
 | 1844 - 490 pages
...these, as affording a better footing than the smooth grass, as we ascended to the summit. Here we found the remains of a foundation nearly eighteen feet square,...placed there as an ornament on the apex of the tumulus. Herodotus says that phalli were erected upon the summit of some of these tumuli, of which this may... | |
 | William Ainsworth - Asia, Western - 1844 - 286 pages
...have been worn by time and weather on the sides of the tumulus of Halyattes, and on the summit are the remains of a foundation nearly eighteen feet square,...circular stone ten feet in diameter, with a flat bottom 12 JOINED BY CLEARCIIUS. [Boon and a raised edge or lip, evidently placed as an ornament on the apex... | |
 | William Smith - Biography - 1853 - 1136 pages
...etnicture. The upper portion, he adds, ia sand and gravel, apparently brought from the bed of the Hermus. He found on the top the remains of a foundation nearly eighteen feet square, on the north of which wae a huge circular stone ten feet in diameter, with a flat bottom and a raised edge or lip, evidently... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1858 - 746 pages
...these as affording a better footing than the smooth grass, as we ascended to the summit. Here we found the remains of a foundation nearly eighteen feet square,...evidently placed there as an ornament on the apex ol the tumulus. Herodotus says that phalli were erected upon the summit of some of these tumuli, of... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - Bible - 1859 - 432 pages
...these as affording a better footing than the smooth grass, as we ascended to the summit. Here we found the remains of a foundation nearly eighteen feet square,...feet in diameter, with a flat bottom, and a raised lip or edge, evidently placed there as an ornament on the apex of the tumulus." The Prussian consul... | |
 | Herodotus - History, Ancient - 1859 - 594 pages
...these as affording a better footing than the smooth grass, «8 we ascended to the summit. Here we found the remains of a. foundation nearly eighteen feet...stone, ten feet in diameter, with a flat bottom and a rai,-cd edge or lip, evidently placed there as an ornament on the apex of the tumulus. Herodotus says... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1862 - 600 pages
...a better footing than tbe smooth LI t.--. as we ascended to the Bummit. Here we found the rernaius of a foundation nearly eighteen feet square, on the...placed there as an ornament on the apex of the tumulus. Herodotus saya that phalli were erected upon the summit of Botne of these tumuli, of which this may... | |
 | Edward Hungerford Goddard - Archaeology - 1862 - 394 pages
...these as affording a better footing than the smooth grass, as we ascended to the summit. Hero we found the remains of a foundation nearly eighteen feet square,...which was a huge circular stone, ten feet in diameter, 1 Pope's Homer's Iliad, book xxiii. * Clio, chap. 93. 3 Rawlinson's Herodotus, vol. i., l>. 232. with... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1862 - 596 pages
...grass, as we ascended to the BUiumit. Here we found the re'uaiua of a foundation nearly eighteen teet square, on the north of which was a huge circular stone, ten feet in diameter, witli a flat bottom and a raised edge or "p, evidently placed there as an ornament ou the apex of the... | |
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Several deep ravines have been worn by time and weather in its sides, particularly on that to the south; we followed one of these, as affording a better footing than the smooth grass, as we ascended to the summit. Here we found the remains of a foundation... 
