[24] Compare Soluntum, p. 36, n. 2.

Despite this reasoned and systematic arrangement, no striking artistic effects appear to have been attempted.  No streets give vistas of stately buildings.  No squares, save that of the Agora—­120 by 230 ft. within an encircling colonnade—­provide open spaces where larger buildings might be grouped and properly seen.  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. 9).

The skill of German archaeologists has revealed what town-planning meant in a small town rebuilt in the Alexandrine period.  No other even approximately complete example has been as yet uncovered on any other site.  But spade-work at the neighbouring and more famous city of Miletus has uncovered similar street-planning there.  In one quarter, the only one yet fully excavated, the streets crossed at right angles and enclosed regular blocks of dwelling-houses measuring 32 x 60 yds. (according to the excavators) but sub-divided into blocks of about 32 yds. square (fig. 9).  These blocks differ somewhat in shape from those of Priene, which are more nearly square; whether they differ in date is more doubtful.  They are certainly not earlier than the Macedonian era, and one German archaeologist places the building or rebuilding of this quarter of Miletus after that of Priene and in a ’late Hellenistic’ and apparently Roman period.  There is unquestionably much Roman work in Miletus; there seems, however, no sufficient reason for ascribing the house-blocks shown on fig. 7 to any date but some part of the Macedonian period.  Though differently shaped, they do not differ very greatly in actual area from those of Priene.  They are somewhat smaller, but only by about 60 sq. yds. in each average-sized plot.[26]

    [26] Wiegand, Abhandlungen der Berliner Akademie, 1911, Anhang;
    Archaeol.  Anzeiger, 1911, 420 foll.

[Illustration:  FIG. 9.  MILETUS, AS EXCAVATED BY WIEGAND. (Archaologischer Anzeiger, 1911, p. 421.)]

Alexandria.