THESSALONICA. 451 
I. A Bacchante playing a Flute. CHAP, 
II. Bacchus, with a Panther. 
III. Ariadne. 
IV. Leda, with the Swan. 
Stuart had adopted a notion, that all these 
figures related to some play of Euripides ; and 
consequently explained them with reference to 
his tragedies. In his plan, elevation, and sec- 
tion of the Incaniadas, he has given part of an 
Inscription which he observed upon the lower 
part of the entablature, extending below the 
whole length of the frieze * : 
NTETEN HMENONYnO 
This escaped our notice ; but imperfect as it 
is, some conjecture, as to the history of the 
building, may perhaps be thereby suggested. 
The figure of Leda is made obverse to that of 
Ganymede; and the four obverse figures are 
executed in sculpture very inferior to that of 
the four front figures above the inscription. The 
figure of Paris, in the old Grecian cap, with the 
bull's head, is in a capital style of sculpture ; 
but that of Ariadne behind, is very badly exe- 
cuted. Behind the figure of Victory is the 
Bacchante, who is playing the flute. The whole 
(2) Ibid. See Plate II. of Chap. 9. 
G O 2 
XI. 
