OF THE ORIENTATIONS OF A NUMBER OF GREEK TEMPLES, 
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Fig. 3. 
Plan of the temple on the mountain at Hilgina. In this case, a setting star having a more southerly 
amplitude than the orientation had to be observed. The western door of the cella of the temple 
is built considerably out of the centre so as to enable the star to be observed from the 
adytum. r 
[Since this paper was first communicated to the Society, 1 have examined tlie five 
cases of extra-solstitial temples, of which I had taken particulars, and have found 
in them much to confirm the general theory. 
To begin with two that stand nearly north and south—one being the Doric 
temple, built on the Acropolis of Mycenae, at some period much subsequent to the 
great Cyclopean walls (for it is built on the ruins of the palace of the ancient kings) 
and the other, the Cabeirion temple to the westward of Thebes, and about three 
miles distant from it. 
It may be presumed that both these temples had eastern doorways for the 
admission of the Sun at its rising, to the interior of the cella, as was the case at 
Bassae, although the evidence which was preserved at Bassae is wanting in these two 
examples; but at Mycenae, at any rate, it may be inferred from the position of the 
mountains round about the temple which would have blocked any stars in the 
directions of the axis, both north and south, whilst the eastern flank is much less 
obstructed. Working upon that theory, we may obtain from the orientation the 
following solution, which agrees very well with what is known respecting the history 
of the place. 
