Open spaces, indeed, such as we meet, in mediaeval and Renaissance Italy or in modern English towns of eighteenth century construction, were very rare in Priene.

Gardens, too, must have been almost entirely absent.

In the area as yet uncovered, scarcely a single dwelling-house possessed any garden ground or yard.[25] [25] Wiegand and Schrader, _Priene, Ergebnisse der Ausgrabung in den Jahren 1895-8_ (Berlin, 1904).

Professor P.Gardner gave a good account to the Town-Planning Conference (_Proceedings_, pp.
112-122).

I am indebted to him for two of my illustrations.
_Miletus_ (fig.