THE EASTERN PROVINCES.
To complete the survey of Roman provincial town-planning, we must glance briefly at the East.

Here towns of Roman origin were few, and of those few scarcely any are well known.

But they do not lack interest.

For example, take Antinoe, built by Hadrian in memory of his favourite Antinous, on the banks of the Nile.

It was a parallelogram more than 3 miles round, which covered an area of 360 acres.