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RUINS OF PANOPEUS. 209
stones. Near this spring is a votive rock, in which there are niches
for offerings, with some illegible inscriptions.
The walls of the Acropolis extend round the rocky summit of a
hill; and exhibit specimens of the three last styles of Grecian masonry,
although polygons are seen only in a few places ; some of the stones
are twelve feet in length. The square towers which project from
the walls, like those of Daulis, are apparently of a less ancient
construction than the rest of the enclosure; some of them are
extremely perfect, and contain doors and windows of the usual form,
diminishing towards the top. In some places, the steps leading up
to the entrances of the towers are cut in the rock.
Besides the gate above-mentioned, which faces Parnassos, there
is another on the western side of the Acropolis, built with very
large blocks, of the third style : the outer surface is left in a rough
state: the architrave is fallen. The only remains within the walls
are two wells cut in the rock, and two dilapidated churches, but
no architectural fragments or inscriptions. Panopeus was destroyed
by Xerxes, and probably never afterwards recovered its former
prosperity.
Pausanias1 mentions only a small temple at Panopeus, which
was of unbaked bricks; there were other examples of this kind of
construction, the principal of which were the walls of Mantineia,2
those of Eion, in Thrace, a temple of Ceres, at Lepreos,3 in Tri-
phylia; another, to the same goddess, at Stiris,4 in Phocis, ano-
ther in Argolis,5 and the portico of Kotios,6 at Epidauros. Ac-
cording to Mr. Hamilton,7 some pyramids constructed in the same
manner are still seen in Egypt. Pietro della Valle mentions a pyra-
mid at Babylon similarly built ;8 and a great part of that city was
composed with the same materials. Pausanias seems doubtful whether
1 B.Q. c.4. '- Pausan. b. 8. c. 8. 3 Id. b. G. c. 5.
* Id. b. ]0. c. 35. 5 Id. b. 2. c. IS. ° Id. b. 2. c. 27.
7 /Egyptiaca. 8 Vol. 1. letter 17.
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stones. Near this spring is a votive rock, in which there are niches
for offerings, with some illegible inscriptions.
The walls of the Acropolis extend round the rocky summit of a
hill; and exhibit specimens of the three last styles of Grecian masonry,
although polygons are seen only in a few places ; some of the stones
are twelve feet in length. The square towers which project from
the walls, like those of Daulis, are apparently of a less ancient
construction than the rest of the enclosure; some of them are
extremely perfect, and contain doors and windows of the usual form,
diminishing towards the top. In some places, the steps leading up
to the entrances of the towers are cut in the rock.
Besides the gate above-mentioned, which faces Parnassos, there
is another on the western side of the Acropolis, built with very
large blocks, of the third style : the outer surface is left in a rough
state: the architrave is fallen. The only remains within the walls
are two wells cut in the rock, and two dilapidated churches, but
no architectural fragments or inscriptions. Panopeus was destroyed
by Xerxes, and probably never afterwards recovered its former
prosperity.
Pausanias1 mentions only a small temple at Panopeus, which
was of unbaked bricks; there were other examples of this kind of
construction, the principal of which were the walls of Mantineia,2
those of Eion, in Thrace, a temple of Ceres, at Lepreos,3 in Tri-
phylia; another, to the same goddess, at Stiris,4 in Phocis, ano-
ther in Argolis,5 and the portico of Kotios,6 at Epidauros. Ac-
cording to Mr. Hamilton,7 some pyramids constructed in the same
manner are still seen in Egypt. Pietro della Valle mentions a pyra-
mid at Babylon similarly built ;8 and a great part of that city was
composed with the same materials. Pausanias seems doubtful whether
1 B.Q. c.4. '- Pausan. b. 8. c. 8. 3 Id. b. G. c. 5.
* Id. b. ]0. c. 35. 5 Id. b. 2. c. IS. ° Id. b. 2. c. 27.
7 /Egyptiaca. 8 Vol. 1. letter 17.
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