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o'i3m deep and beside it a base about o-50m high. The largest chamber of all (ti) was
probably entered from the court by a door on the south. Round three sides of it were
remains of stone seats. The north-east and north-west corners showed traces of a rough
mosaic paving. The middle of the floor had five slabs, which had probably served as
bases for pillars. Six lesser apartments (1—6) at the south-east angle were built of small
stones bonded with clay and were clearly of later construction. The court also contained
a hearth of baked bricks (0), another pit full of ashes (v), etc. The western portion of the
building was protected against water pouring down from a higher level by an extra wall
(F—B—A), part of which (B—A) was specially strong. And on the southern side the
foundations were strengthened by a retaining wall (E—Z). Miscellaneous finds (at ft and
elsewhere) included the relief of a griffin in limestone, animals in clay (leonine foot, pig's
snout), the head of a dove (?) in Pentelic marble, etc. No Mycenaean vases were discovered,
but fragments of large pithoi with impressed geometric designs, also Corinthian ware in
some abundance, and sherds of black-figured and red-figured technique. A few broken
vases etc. were inscribed {Corp. inscr. Gr. sept, i nos. 3492—3497), of which the most

important were a kylix-ioo\. incised cbE£ or dpES = [Aids 'A]<pecr[i'ou], or [Au :A]<pe<r[io>]

(no. 3494) and a stone slab reading H&PO........= "H/>w[os] or"Hpw[t] (no. 3492). See

further D. Philios in the 'E<p. 'Apx- 1890 pp. 35 ff. (with careful plans and illustrations:
pi. 4, 3 = my fig. 822), 63 f., H. G. Lolling ib. 1890 p. 55 ff., D. Philios in thellpa/cT. dpx-

B

Fig. 822.

ir. 1889 p. 26, W. Doerpfeld in the Ath. Mitth. 1889 xiv. 327, and Frazer Pausanias
ii. 550 f.

The interpretation of the western group of buildings is disputed. H. G. Lolling held
that it was originally a private dwelling-house, to which a sanctuary had afterwards been
attached; D. Philios, that it was from the first an edifice containing chambers for the
priest and the temple-attendants (cp. Paus. 10. 34. 7). I incline to think that the chambers
with stone couches (A, 7, 8) were used for incubation, and that the rooms with circular