186 LEBADEA TO ORCHOMENUS. 
CHAP, in the neighbourhood, others may determine. 
;. . Owing to the age of the person represented, it 
does not seem probable that any allusion was 
here made to the superstitions respecting Actccon 
which existed among the Orchomenians\ Pau- 
SANiAS, by whom they are noticed, also relates 
that there was a Temple of Hercules, containing 
an image of the Deity ^ at the distance oi seven 
stadia from Orchomenus, near the sources of 
the Melas, a small river which fell into the Lake 
Cephissis. The figure here exiiibited has upon 
his head the old scull-cap now called Fez by the 
Greeks 2indi Albanians^; but this cap, as a part of 
the antient costume, is of such high antiquity, 
that we find it worn by Mercury, as he is re- 
presented upon the oldest silver medals of iExos 
in Thrace. The style of the sculpture is Grceco- 
Etruscan, and perhaps it may be considered as 
one of the earliest specimens of the art: the 
hands of the figure, and the dog, are well exe- 
cuted, but the rest is rude and angular. We have 
(1) n£j< V^'Axra^ullas Xtyifima, x. t. A. Pausan. Bceotic. C. 38. p. 787. 
(2) "Stooiou; oi upifrtixtr tT-ra 'Oa^efiiyeu »aos t« 'H^axXiavs, xa) ccyaXfio. 
*v /icya. ivraZ6a. t«w voTKfji,tv MiXatoi «/V/» a'l fnya), it. r. X. Ibid. 
(3) The sketch from wliich an engraving has been made for this work 
cannot pretend to accuracy ; it was almost made from memory : but the 
original has lately excited considerable curiosity j and as no delineation 
of it has hitherto been published, it was thought that this might assist a 
description of it, until some more faithful representation shall appear. 
