240 ATHENS. 
CHAP, hair of the statues which represented Deities, 
i ^_ T - . and sometimes other parts of the bodies. This 
practice remained to a very late period of the 
art, as it has been already shewn in a former 
part of this work 1 . During an excavation 
which Lusieri had carried on here, he had dis- 
covered the antient pavement, in its entire 
state ; consisting of the same white marble as 
the temple. We found an Inscription, which 
proves how antient the custom was of pro- 
nouncing the Greek B like the Roman V, by the 
manner of writing a name which must have 
been their Victorinus: " PHAXEAS, HIERO- 
PHANT, SON OF VlCTORINUS." 
4>ANeiACTHCBIKTCOPei 
NOY IG PO* ANTH C 
Marbles Among the ruins of this and of other buildings 
used in the . . 
. m the Acropolis, we noticed the fragments of 
almost every kind of marble, and of the most 
beautiful varieties of breccia; but particularly of 
the verd-antique, entire columns of which had 
once adorned the Erectheum. Under a heap of 
loose stones and rubbish in the centre of it, we 
discovered the broken shaft of a verd-antique 
pillar of uncommon beauty: this we purchased 
of the Disdar; and having with great difficulty 
(1) See Vol.V. Chap. IV. p. 205 of the 8vo Edition of these Travek. 
