Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (6.1890-1897 (1897))

EXCAVATIONS IN TEE THEATRE AT SIC YON

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v7t6vopios, which is here but .80 m. broad, is met by a gutter
cut in a single block of stone and running under the lower of
the two courses of stone blocks which form the exterior
boundary of the semicircular conduit, thus lying some .65 m.
below the level of the rim of the conduit. The opening of this
gutter from the inside of the conduit is some .27 m. broad by
.16 m. deep. The semicircular conduit is not artificially
floored, but is merely hollowed in the hard white clay of the
orchestra. Careful excavations at both ends prove con-
clusively to my mind that it had no connection with the
vnovofio? from these points, but only by the one outlet just
described. Although the vnovofxos, as indicated above, was
not entirely excavated, I am of the opinion that what has
been done furnishes sufficient data for an estimate of its
general character and use.12

Mortimer Lamson Earle.

Barnard College, New York,
October 18, 1891.

12 [N. B. Some Blight changes have been made in the measurements as they ap-
peared in my original notes; for this again I am indebted to the accuracy of
Dr. Young.]