We need hardly expect to find the same measure
always applying to the buildings on the hill, for the
form of these buildings is often controlled by the
nature of the ground, Still they do apply, and the
diameter of the curve on which the wall of the
eastern temple is built is 84-J feet, which is equal to
half of 17-17 x 3-142. Of the two curved walls on
the left hand when entering this temple from the
south the diameter of the curve of one is equal to
17-17 x 3-14, and the radius of the other is 17-17
feet. The only other regularly curved wall on the
hill is the western great wall with monoliths and
round towers, and the diameter of the circle of which
the curve of this wall forms a part is 254 feet, and
this does not agree with our system of measure.
But this wall and its towers are not well built, and
there is good reason to suppose that it is not the
original wall, or that the outer portion of it is not
original; and, in fact, we discovered the foundation of
part of another parallel wall, as is partly shown in
plan, six feet west of this wall. If this were the
original wall, it would give a diameter of 266 feet
for the circle, which is half of 17T7 x 3T43.
At Matindela the only regularly curved piece of
wall is that about the principal doorway, but it is so
rough in its construction that one hesitates to deal
with it, and we can only say that it seems to be built
on a curve of 107-f feet radius = twice 17-17 x 3-14.
The whole appearance of this wall and the slight
inaccuracies in the orientation of the decorations
which it carries, suggest that it is a more recent
wall built roughly as a copy of an original wall on
the same foundation.
The ruin at the Lundi River is circular in form
and well built, and its diameter is fifty-four feet, which
is equal to 17-17 x 3-14.
Of course all the above measurements refer to
the outside of the walls at the base, as this is the
way in which the tower itself was measured.
The same principle of measurement applies to the
curves which determine the shape of the two towers
themselves, and' this explains why it is that the little
tower tapers much more rapidly towards the top
than does the great one. If we describe a circular
curve with its centre on the same level as the base
of the great tower and its radius equal to twice
17-17 x 3-14 on 107f feet, we find that it exactly fits
the outline of the great tower as it is shown in our
photographs. Also, a curve described in a similar
way but with a radius equal to twice the diameter of
the little tower multiplied by 3-14 (5’45 x 3'14 x 2 =
34-34 feet) wifi correspond to the outline of that
tower.
The towers when built were doubtless made complete
in their mathematical form and were carried up
to a point as we see in a coin of Byblos, where we
have a similar tower represented with curved outlines
Their heights as determined by these curves would
be 42-3 and 13-5 feet respectively, and these numbers
also bear the same relation to each other that the
circumference of a circle does to its diameter.
We have no explanation to give of the position of
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