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Ancient Town-Planning

CHAPTER IV
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G.Agora, Market.

I.Council House, K.Prytaneion.L, Q.Gymnasium.

N.Theatre, O.Water-reservoir, R.Race-course.] [Illustration: FIG.7.PART OF PRIENE AS EXCAVATED 1895-8.
(From the large plan by Wiegand and Schrader.)] [Illustration: FIG.8.PRIENE, PANORAMA OF THE TOWN.
(As restored by Zippelius.)] _Priene_ (figs.

6-8).
The best instance of the new system is not perhaps the most famous.
Priene was a little town on the east coast of the Aegean.

The high ridge of Mycale towered above it; Miletus faced it across an estuary; Samos stood out seawards to the west.


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