226 Ienian Islands. 
Vases of baked earth, lachrymals, and small copper uten- 
sils, are found daily. We know that the art of making 
earthenware had been wonderfully perfected in this country ; 
and if we may judge by the number of the objects and the 
details which have been given of them, we shall find that 
the ancients have not exaggerated. Great atleation has 
been paid to the upper parts of the small lamps, upon which 
are represented in bas relief erotic scenes of very fine exe- 
cution. 
Fragments of columns and several capitals of the Doric 
order have been found, and particularly some shafts of 
finely fluted columus. One of these shafts is 1 metre 
10 centimetres in diameter, another 87 centimetres : some 
elegant small heads have also been found, a statue of a 
female with very elegant drapery, and several other figures in 
marble: a leaden bow very well preserved, and two weights 
of an oval form and of less diameter than an egg, with 
the inscription KAAISTPATOY. These were probably the 
balls which served for the sling of some hero among the 
Corcyrans. 
In another place further off, a stone arch has been dis- 
covered with several holes on the surface, which seems to 
indicate that it was an oven for baking clay. Some are of 
opinion, but prebably erroneously, that it was a hydraulic 
machine. 
In the same environs, at a place called Straties, there 
was found an ancient bronze vase of middling size and 
without handles: it contained a large quantity of silver 
medals. The greater part of these medals are in high pre- 
servation, they are of Dyrrhachium, an ancient Corcyran 
colony, now called Durazzo, a city on the shores of Epirus. 
These medals bear the usual emblem of a cow suckling a 
calf, and on the exergue what archeologists regard as the 
gardens of Alcinoiis, with the epigraph 47P and the club. 
The only difference which we have to remark, ts, that the 
cow is turned to the left, instead of being to the right, as 
upon all the medals of this colony. Among these medals, 
some have been found belonging to Corinth and Siphnos 
with the Sphynx, and belonging to Corcyra with the 
diota to the right and the star in the exergue: other Cor- 
cyran medals of third rate size have on une side young 
Bacchus crowned with ivy, on the other a winged Pegasus, 
a laurel on bis head, and at his hind feet the prow of a 
ship with the monograms A. K. K.: others have the inserip- 
tion BAAAKPOT and PIAQNIAAZ: others the name of 
the king of Macedon Demetrius. At the same spot are 
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