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16 .EGINA.
PLATE II.
VIEW OF THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER PANELLENIUS.
We are indebted to Dr. Chandler (p. 12.) for the following account of this Temple in its
present state.
" The gulf included within the two promontories, Sunium and Scyllaeum, contains several
islands, of which vEgina is the principal. This island was surrounded by Attica, the Megaris, or
territory of Megara, and the Peloponnesus; each distant about one hundred stadia, or twelve miles
and a half. It was washed, on the east and the south, by the Myrtoan and Cretan seas. As we
entered the bay. the mountain Panellenius, covered with trees, sloping before us, and a temple on
its summit, near an hour distant from the shore, appeared as in a wood.
" The Temple of Jupiter Panellenius is of the Doric Order, having six columns in front. It has
twenty-one of the exterior columns yet standing, with the two of the front of the Pronaos and
Posticum, and five of the number which formed the ranges within the Cell. The entablature,
except the architrave, is fallen. The stone is of a light-brownish colour, much eaten in many
places, and by its decay witnessing a very great age. Some of the columns have been injured, by
boring to their centres for the metal. In several, the junction of the parts is so exact, that each
seems to consist of one piece. Digging by a column of the portico of the Naos, we discovered a
fragment of fine sculpture: it was the hind part of a greyhound, of white marble ; and belonged,
it is probable, to the ornaments fixed on the freeze; which has a groove in it, as for their inser-
tion. I searched afterwards for this remnant, but found only a small bit, with some spars; suf-
ficient to shew that the trunk had been broken and removed. The Temple was inclosed by a
peribolus, or wall, of which traces are extant. We considered this ruin as a very curious article,
scarcely to be paralleled in its claim to remote antiquity. The situation, on a lonely mountain
at a dis&nce from the sea, has preserved it from total demolition, amid all the changes and acci-
dents of numerous centuries."
PLATE II.
VIEW OF THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER PANELLENIUS.
We are indebted to Dr. Chandler (p. 12.) for the following account of this Temple in its
present state.
" The gulf included within the two promontories, Sunium and Scyllaeum, contains several
islands, of which vEgina is the principal. This island was surrounded by Attica, the Megaris, or
territory of Megara, and the Peloponnesus; each distant about one hundred stadia, or twelve miles
and a half. It was washed, on the east and the south, by the Myrtoan and Cretan seas. As we
entered the bay. the mountain Panellenius, covered with trees, sloping before us, and a temple on
its summit, near an hour distant from the shore, appeared as in a wood.
" The Temple of Jupiter Panellenius is of the Doric Order, having six columns in front. It has
twenty-one of the exterior columns yet standing, with the two of the front of the Pronaos and
Posticum, and five of the number which formed the ranges within the Cell. The entablature,
except the architrave, is fallen. The stone is of a light-brownish colour, much eaten in many
places, and by its decay witnessing a very great age. Some of the columns have been injured, by
boring to their centres for the metal. In several, the junction of the parts is so exact, that each
seems to consist of one piece. Digging by a column of the portico of the Naos, we discovered a
fragment of fine sculpture: it was the hind part of a greyhound, of white marble ; and belonged,
it is probable, to the ornaments fixed on the freeze; which has a groove in it, as for their inser-
tion. I searched afterwards for this remnant, but found only a small bit, with some spars; suf-
ficient to shew that the trunk had been broken and removed. The Temple was inclosed by a
peribolus, or wall, of which traces are extant. We considered this ruin as a very curious article,
scarcely to be paralleled in its claim to remote antiquity. The situation, on a lonely mountain
at a dis&nce from the sea, has preserved it from total demolition, amid all the changes and acci-
dents of numerous centuries."