550 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, long rased, that it may have been overlooked 
by Pausanias, as it was by modern travellers 
until our arrival : and if this be the case, it may 
be a relic of the Sisypheum; a mole, or bulwark, 
not mentioned by that writer, but noticed by 
Diodorus Siculus and by Strabo. As Chandler has 
placed the Sisypheum elsewhere, we shall 
presently have occasion to say something fur- 
ther concerning this structure. The Corinthians 
had also a Hieron to all the Gods\ where there 
was a statue of Neptune with a Dolphin spouting 
forth water; but the water of the dolphin was 
conveyed by means of an aqueduct, and was 
not a natural spring*. 
In going from the area of this building 
(1) Qta7i*Zffif'lior. Pausan. in Corinth, c.2. p. 116. Ed. KuhnX. 
(2) The curious marble discovered by the Earl of Aberdeen at Corinth, 
and since brought to England, which was found covering the mouth of an 
antient well, may have been the identical Hieron here alluded to by Pau~ 
aanias. The word 'lij, it is true, is translated Templum by Amasam; 
but it does not appear probable that this could be the author's meaning; 
because he is actually speaking of a TEMPLE (Tv%vt * ). by which he says 
the Hieron stood. rio^a & tttro tuTf trarlf If iieit. It is there- 
fore at least probable that all he intends, in this passage, by the word 
Hieron is the representation of the Heathen Deities upon the marble 
bas-relief that covered the mouth of a well by which the Temple of For- 
tune stood. If all the HIERA of Pausanias wore to be translated Temples, 
there would have been more temples in Greece than in the whole world 
besides. 
