H I E R O N. 
and to increase the interest excited bv the CHAP. 
VII. 
discovery of these curious remains, we found -. ^ > 
the same passage of that historian cited by 
fPtnkelmann, to prove that such materials were 
used in antient architecture 2 . After describing 
the Theatre, the Stadium, and other edifices, 
Pausanias adds 3 : " The Hieron once contained 
a portico (<rroa), called that of Cotys; but the 
roof falling in, caused the destruction of the 
whole edifice, owing to the nature of its mate- 
rials, which consisted of crude itiles." 
We then went, by an antient road, to the top 
of a hill towards the east ; and found upon the 
summit the remains of a temple, with steps 
leading to it yet remaining : there is reason to 
believe this to have been the Temple of the 
Coryphcean Diana, upon Mount Cunortium, from Temple of 
/ 1-1 the Cor y~ 
the circumstance of an Inscription which we dis- pitman 
covered upon the spot. It is imperfect ; but it 
mentions a priest of DIAXA, of the name of 
Apotatilius, who had commemorated his safety 
from some disorder: 
(2) Histoire de 1'Art chez lesAnciens, torn. II. p. 544. Paris, An 2. 
(85 KaJ ya.p arta. xa.*.eup,i>ti Karut;, xxrapfvitraf Si el <rou op/fta, 
dmpfaera i$n -rUffx, n niftjji r>ii x\'ntw rtinfa'ira. Patcscm. Corint/tiuca, 
c. 27. p. 174. Lips. 1696. 
