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carried a small statue, of which no fragments were found ; but about 

 three feet from the wall we laid bare a larger pedestal, with votive in- 

 scriptions behind and before. The inscription to the front was headed 

 with the name of Athene, and went on to thank Hercules, ' who gives 

 good voyages.' The inscription behind purported to be the ela-fjiopos, a 

 curious form of the word eto-<^opa, giving, I suppose, the idea of tribute 

 to some god whose name was unfortunately obliterated. Near this 

 pedestal we found fragments of a draped statue, which had presumably 

 stood upon it. Also an archaic circular jDcdestal with Doric flutings, 

 6 ft. 2 in. round at the base, 1 ft. 6 in. in diameter at the top, 3 ft. 2 in. 

 round the neck, and standing 3 ft. 6 in. high. This pedestal is similar to 

 several which have been found amongst the archaic remains on the Acro- 

 polis at Athens. 



Along the southern wall of this chamber ran another raised platform, 

 similar, though slightly lower, to the one on which the statue of Apollo 

 had stood in the other chamber. On this we found a small votive altar, 

 with an inscription stating that it had been put up to Dionysos, the 

 oppressor of wrath (/jl^vl Tvpdvvtti), and in the wall behind was a stone 

 bearing the inscription, in letters of a good period, ' the Dionysian 

 herald of love.' 



This chamber was considerably smaller than the other, measuring 

 only 14 ft. 8 in. across ; it had been paved with marble, but the outer wall 

 towards the town showed signs of considerable alterations in the original 

 scheme during the Roman period ; however, on the central .slabs of this 

 frontage wall, we found the bases of two Doric columns, 2 ft. 8 in. in dia- 

 meter, with 22 flutings and 6 ft. 6 in. apart. This platform was 3 ft. 1 in. 

 wide, and between and around the pillars were many names and sen- 

 tences scribbled, also j^hallic designs. One of the names, in large and 

 good letters, was Aristogeiton, and another recorded the name of ' Simos 

 the gay, the good at heart.' 



But at the southern side this wider platform and the Doric columns 

 had been replaced by a narrower platform, with traces on it of a later 

 colonnade, and before it stood the circular bases of two columns of a 

 debased period ; and from fragments we found it would appear that badly 

 executed Ionic columns had been erected at the time of these later 

 alterations, and stood side by side with the massive Doric columns of the 

 earlier scheme. 



Between the southern wall of the temple and the hill which rose 

 abruptly behind it ran a narrow passage, with steps leading down to the ■ 

 sea. The wall on the hill-side, evidently erected as a facing to the natu- 

 ral rock, was composed of blocks of marble of extraordinary thinness in 

 comparison to their length, the first that we uncovered being 11 ft. 5 in. 

 long, 1 ft. 7 in. high, and only 7 in. thick. This passage was 7 ft. 4 in. 

 wide, and at forty feet from the top of the steps was divided by a wall 

 and a door. Time did not permit of our following this passage up 

 further, but it evidently was in connection with the temple, for on one 

 stone of the outer wall of the temple we found a much obliterated in- 

 scription, of which all we could decipher was ' to Poseidon, who gives 

 good voyages,' and in another line the name Asclepius, and in a third 

 the name Pegasos. Also we found another well-cut stone with Anteros 

 scribbled on it in large irregular letters (Anteros, the revenger of un- 

 requited love). 



These are the principal features of the temple which we excavated, 



