386 The newly-discovered Temple at Cadachio. 



moved ; in the interior there are some curious remains of an 

 altar ;" but ** the remainder of the building, together with thfe 

 cliff upon which that part of it stood, has fallen into the sea. 

 The front of the building faced the sea, with an east-south-east 

 aspect ; and the platform at the top of the cliff, upon which the 

 temple was erected, stands at the level of about a hundred feet 

 above the sea. 



Colonel Whitmore, to whose classical taste and erudition 

 Mr. Railton and the public are indebted for some account 

 both of the discovery, and of his own conjectures con- 

 cerning the history of the temple, relates, that " the excava- 

 tion has further brought to light several female heads, and a 

 small leg, in terra cotta, which," the Colonel observes, ^' might 

 have been either votive offerings, or portions of the jointed toys 

 not unfrequent in the tombs of children : there have been also 

 found earthen cones, the foot of a statue, unguentaries and liba- 

 tories, brazen paterae, scarabaei, glass beads, ivory, copper, 

 iron and lead ; a bronze four-spoked wheel (which was the 

 emblem of Nemesis), weights, the heads of arrows, pieces of 

 ear-rings, and a number of coins of Epirus, Apollonia, Corinth, 

 Syracuse, and Coracya. The cones are supposed to have been 

 attached to the necks of cattle, and the scarabaei to have been 

 worn by the soldiers as amulets." The temple was roofed, and 

 covered with tiles, many of which have proper names impressed 

 on them ; and probably they were those of the chief magistrates 

 during its construction or renovation. Among them are the 

 following : — Aristomenes, Thersia, Damon, &c. 



From the forms of the letters composing these names, as 

 well as from the architecture, its proportions, &c. &c. a very 

 remote construction is attributed to this temple ; and Colonel 

 Whitmore, from a comparison of these latter peculiarities with 

 those which are remarked in the Parthenon, and in the Temple 

 of Theseus, ventures to assign it to a similar date ; that is, to 

 about the middle of the fifth century before Christ. As fur- 

 ther evidence, however, of the antiquity of this temple, Colonel 

 W. appeals to an inscription extant in the Museum at Ve- 

 rona, and already edited by Maffei, in his Museum Veronense ; 

 which inscription appears to refer to this identical temple at 

 Cadachio, 



