200 A T H E N S. 
CHAP, the antient paved way leading from the Piraeus; 
also, of an aqueduct. As we drew near to the 
Greece. To the Earl of Aberdeen, History and the Fine Arts will ever 
be indebted, for the pains he bestowed in the excavation and restora- 
tion of the Pnyx, and for other similar undertakings. {See Appendix 
to the Cambridge Marbles, p. 67. Camb. 1809.) Many of our coun- 
trymen have since followed Lord Aberdeen's example. 
Upon the subject of the excavations at Athens, Mr. Wulpole has the 
following observations in his Journal : 
IC Travellers, who will be at the pains to excavate the soil in the 
vicinity of Athens, will be amply rewarded for their trouble. The 
vases which Signor Lusieri has found in digging near the city are, in 
their form and general execution, not to be surpassed by any that 
have been discovered in Italy and Sicily. Among other remains of 
antiquity, he has found musical instruments (the u.u\lt and rXay/auXo,-, 
called, by the Modern Greeks, *ay<awA.<v), ornaments of dress of 
various kinds, ear-rings of gold, and mirrors. These last are of 
metal : in Pliny (lib. 34.) we find mention of the employment of tin 
and silver in the fabrication of them : the Jews and Egyptians used 
those made of brass. In the time of Pompey there were some of 
silver. The form of the antient mirror is observed frequently on 
vases in this shape +, being the character of one of the planets and a 
metal; namely, Venus, and copper: the meaning of it, thus applied, 
is evident, as mirrors were sacred to Venus, and were made of a metal 
from Cyprus; that is, copper; and were covered with a leaf of silver. 
In the analysis of a mirror, Caylus discovered a mixture of copper, 
rcgulus of antimony, and lead: copper was the preponderating; lead, 
the least part. 
" In the Ceravnicus, near to the site of the Academy, was discovered 
that very antient and interesting Inscription in verse (now in England), 
of which Mons. Fauvel gave me a copy at Athens, relating to those 
Athenians who had fallen at Potidaea, in the Peloponnesian war : the 
first line, legible, begins, AIEPMEM<t>2TXASTnEAEX2ATO . . 
The form of the letters, and other archaisms, render the inscription 
very valuable. Near the Church of Soteira Lycodemon, probably the 
site of the antient Lyceum, was found an Inscription, copied also by 
Mons. 
