284 ATHENS. 
CHAP, the Sphinx, as it is well known, is one of the 
' sepulchral monuments in the great ccemetery of 
Memphis. The same vessel was made an accom- 
paniment of Charon and Hermes when conducting 
Psyche, or the Soul, to Hades, as this subject is 
represented upon the gems of Greece 1 . 
Proceeding through the inhabited part of the 
city, towards the north-west, a little beyond the 
Corinthian structure to which we have so lately 
alluded, we came to an extensive Ruin, encum- 
bered with modern buildings; which Stuart, 
from the imperfect survey he was able to make 
of it, considered as the GYMNASIUM OF PTO- 
LoiY 9 . Its vicinity to the Temple of Theseus 
renders this highly probable. Stuart indeed 
speaks of its plan; but he has not given it. 
Concealed as it is by dwellings, and greatly 
dilapidated, we have not even attempted to 
supply what that able architect and inquisitive 
traveller did not feel himself authorised, from 
the state of the Ruin, to communicate. 
(1) See the Vignette to this Chapter ; from a scarabaan gem in tb 
author's possession. Mercury, in this representation, appears to be 
offering the cake of flour and honey to appease Cerberus. fid. 
jfrisfaph. in Lysist. v. 60!. Schol. ib. Id. in Eccles. v. 534. 
(2) See rol. III. p. 3. Antiq. of Athens. Lond. 1794. 
