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ever infer, that it was erected in commemo-
ration of a victory, gained in a choragic exhi-
bition. It is composed of three distinct parts.
First, a quadrangular basement: secondly, a
circular colonnade, the intercolumniations of
which were entirely closed up by pannels
carved towards the top with basso relievos of
eared tripods; and thirdly, a tholus or cu-
pola, with the ornament which is placed on it.
There was no aperture in any part; and being
of very small dimensions, five feet eleven
inches in diameter, it could be intended only
as an ornamental structure, dedicated perhaps
to Bacchus, commemorative of the success of
Lysicrates when he was Choragus of the mu-
sical and theatrical entertainment at the Dio-
nysia, a festival of Bacchus, and destined to
support the tripod which constituted the re-
ward of victory. The date of the annual arch-
onship of Evsenetus, mentioned in the in-
scription, is the year A.C. 335. Of the sculp-
tured frize, and of the story represented on
it, we shall speak more at large hereafter. On
the top of the cupola, which is carved out of
a single stone, to imitate a covering of laurel