204 ATHENS. 
CHAP, the theatre as the Odeum of Pericles* ; and it is 
iv. 
v- y . > remarkable that Pausanias mentions a statue of 
Bacchus, as worthy of notice, in a conspicuous 
situation upon entering the Odeum 3 . Upon the 
interesting eastern side of this statue, fastened in the rock, 
Relic. 
appeared a still more interesting relic ; namely, 
the very antient SUN-DIAL which, in the time of 
JEschylus, of Sophocles, and Euripides, indicated 
to the Athenian people the hour at which their 
plays were to begin. This we had reason to 
hope would be permitted to remain where it had 
been so long preserved ; as no antient nor 
modern Alaric had deemed it to be an object 
worthy of his regard. Above the statue we 
saw also the TWO CHORAGIC PILLARS for sup- 
porting TRIPODS, described by Chandler 5 and 
by Stuart*, standing high upon the steep 
acclivity of the rock 5 . Fortunately for us, we 
Sun-dial near to it, which had existed there ever since the time of 
jEscJiyhis, Sophocles, and Euripides antiquities which were only 
valuable as long as they remained in their original situation have been 
tince pulled down , and carried off, in the name of the British Nation, _by 
the agents of our Ambassador at the Porte.'!.' 
(1) Antiq. of Athens, vol.11, p.?. Letter k. 
(2) 'E{ Si Tt 'A.(wtifn t\fi\6iu<rn utiTov, aXAa < xai Aiivuins xiTrai (IKS 
S&tt. Fausan. lib.i. c. 14. p. 34. Lips. 1696. 
(3) Trav. in Greece, p. 63. Oxford, 1776. 
(4) Antiq. of Athens, vol.11, ch. 4. Land. 1787. 
(5) See the Plate in the Quarto Edition of these Travels, Vol. III. 
above referred to. 
