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MR. F. C. PENROSE ON THE RESULTS OF AN EXAMINATION 
sequently I was only enabled to take the bearings of certain ancient walls, which 
appear to have had some connection with the temple, and which cannot fail to be 
carefully co-related to it when the excavations under the French Archaeological School 
are sufficiently advanced to show how the temple actually stood. 
The well-known wall of the inscriptions, or rather the stylobate of the Stoa of the 
Athenians in front of it, has an orientation angle of 231° 34' 31", and the altitude of 
the mountain at right angles to it is 3° 10'. 
2. The Doric temple at Mycenae, which rests partly on the ruins of an archaic 
palace, has an orientation of 173° 20'. The mountain to the north is very near and 
high; that to the east I found to be 7° 44', and that to the west 2° 40'. To the 
south it was not measured. 
3. The Cabeirion temple, near Thebes, has an orientation angle of 186° 27' 45". 
In this temple there is a cross wall at a different angle to what it would be if square 
with the main axis, viz., 257° 57' 35", looking east. There is a clear view to the 
north, where the mountain’s altitude is 1° 37', but the temple is inclosed on the three 
other sides by near hills. The lowest is that to the east, with an altitude of 8° 38'. 
4. In their search for the Athenian Agora, the German Archaeological School 
discovered a small temple lying in the direction of the valley, between the Areopagus 
and the Pnyx. Its orientation angle is 317° 28' 21". I did not ascertain the alti¬ 
tude of the hills around. The clearest view would have been towards the north¬ 
west, where the altitude of Mt. Fames would be less than 3°. It is a very small 
temple, and its position could not but have been determined by the valley in which it 
is situated. 
5. The temple of Diana Propylsea at Eleusis has an orientation angle of 313° 43' 13". 
The mountain heights are much the same as those opposite the great temple already 
given. 
6 and 7. The other two temples referred to above are those of Elateia, in Boeotia, 
and Vakklia, in Arcadia, near where the Ladon falls into the Alpheus. The latter 
temple is described as built upon the ridge of a hill. 
8. The walls of the cathedral at Ancona, which, as already observed, it is reasonable 
to suppose rest upon the foundations of the Temple of Venus, have an orientation 
angle of 223° 11' 23". The east and west views would have been practically un¬ 
obstructed. 
It is quite possible that, in the case of 2, 3, 6, and 7, the Sun, at its rising, could 
have been admitted by an eastern doorway, as at Bassre. 
If the temples be arranged according to the heliacal stars which have been shown 
in the above pages to have coincided within close limits with their axes, they will be 
grouped as follows, in order of the dates which have been assigned to the different 
temples :— 
