ATHENS. 271 
inner CERAMICUS, and near to the site of the CHAP. 
greater AGORA, from the circumstance of the 
Inscription mentioned by Spon and by JVheler, 
containing a decree of the Emperor Hadrian 
relating to the sale of oil, which was found upon 
the spot 6 . And if this be true, the Corinthian 
edifice may be either the old Forum of the inner 
Ceramicus, called APXAIA ArOPA, where the 
public assemblies of the people were held, which 
is the most probable conjecture as to its origin, 
or the remains of the Temple of Vulcan, or of 
Venus Urania; for the Doric portico which Stuart 
believed to have belonged to the Agora 1 is 
exactly in a line with the front of this building; 
and its situation corresponds with that of the 
portico called Basileum by Pausanias, beyond 
which the Temple of Vulcan stood 8 . The mea- 
sures for dry things, in the bazar, were fashioned 
in the antient style, and of the materials for- 
merly used, being made of white marble; but 
their capacity has been adapted to modern 
(6) See Spon, as above, p. 106. Wheler, p. 389. KiXtutrfta to/tips* 
Qmu J Aoiatev, . T. X. See also the Plan of Athens, engraved as a 
Fignette to the preceding Chapter. 
(7) Antiquities of Athens, vol. J. c. 1. p. 3. Land. 1765. 
(8) 'T-rif $s TO KiZfttixt no.} <rrta.i T xa*.svpitti> Bafffomr, taa; \ffrn 
P(iuinni<r Attica, e. 14. p. 36. Lips. 1C96. 
