tions. 
ELEUSIS. 603 
of the Temple have been described by almost CHAP. 
all the authors who have mentioned the Statue; ^ T - _ 
and its dimensions are given by Chandler*. The 
broken shafts and capitals of the columns lie 
around, in promiscuous heaps of ruin. We 
sought, without success, the pedestal believed by 
JVheler* to have been the base of the Statue: but 
we discovered the following Inscription upon a 
marble pedestal of no considerable magnitude, 
HE^APEIOnArOY 
BOYAHKAJHBOYAH 
TftNWAIOAHMOZ 
OAOHNAIUNKAAYAI 
ANMENANAPANKAAY 
AIOY<l>IAinnOYTOY 
AAAOYXHZANTOZOYfATE 
PAKAAYAEMOZTPATOYET 
rONONAIAHPA3EArOPOYA 
nOrONONAPETHZENEKEN 
" In honour of Claudia Menandra, the daughter of 
Claudius Philippus, who had been Torch-bearer at 
the Mysteries, the Senate of the Areopagus, the 
Council of Five Hundred, and People of Athens, 
erect this* 
(2) Travels in Greece, p. 190. Oj-f. 1776. 
(3) Journey into Greece, p, 428. Land. 1682. 
