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DESCRIPTIVE TOUR OF PAUSANIAS 277
That Pausanias should have omitted to mention this con-
spicuous monument is all the more remarkable when we
consider the full and detailed account of his route among the
monuments that lined his path on the Acropolis. But a
similar important omission occurs in the case of the temple of
Roma and Augustus built on the Acropolis about the same
time as the Agrippa monument. At the time of the building
of these monuments the Acropolis appears to have been the
object of a revival of interest on the part of the Roman
emperors, particularly of Augustus, who, together with his
son-in-law Agrippa, seems to have been instrumental in
merging the Panathenaic festivals and the festivals in honor
of the Roman emperors together (176). It is probable that
also about this time the great Roman stairway was built, and
that Agrippa had taken some part in this reconstruction. From
this period also date new regulations for a more careful guard of
the entrance to the Acropolis, indicated by the so-called " Akro-
phylakes" and " Pyloroi," who, according to an inscription
{C.I.A. iii. 159) erected an altar to Apollo Agyieus close to the
base of the Agrippa monument. Higher up the slope and on
the projecting foundation walls of the wings of the Propylaea,
on each side of the stairway, Pausanias saw facing each other the
statues of two horsemen of which he says that he was not sure
whether they represented the sons of Xenophon or were merely
decorative. From the portions of the inscribed bases and the
pedestals of these statues that have been found, we now know
that Pausanias was mistaken in connecting these statues with
the sons of Xenophon the historian. The inscribed base and
pedestal of the statue which stood on the south side of the
ascent have been placed in their original relation to the walls
of the Propylaea. The pedestal consists of a number of blocks
°f Pentelic marble, surmounted by a slab of Hymettian marble.
On its upper and lower surfaces this slab of marble bears
marks which show that each of these supported a statue at
different times, but the marks on the two surfaces are so
different that they cannot be those of the same statue. On
each of the two longer of the narrow sides of the slab the
following inscription is carved : " The cavalry [dedicated this
out of the spoils which they took] from the enemy when
I-acedaemonius, Xenophon, and Pronapes were cavalry colonels.
That Pausanias should have omitted to mention this con-
spicuous monument is all the more remarkable when we
consider the full and detailed account of his route among the
monuments that lined his path on the Acropolis. But a
similar important omission occurs in the case of the temple of
Roma and Augustus built on the Acropolis about the same
time as the Agrippa monument. At the time of the building
of these monuments the Acropolis appears to have been the
object of a revival of interest on the part of the Roman
emperors, particularly of Augustus, who, together with his
son-in-law Agrippa, seems to have been instrumental in
merging the Panathenaic festivals and the festivals in honor
of the Roman emperors together (176). It is probable that
also about this time the great Roman stairway was built, and
that Agrippa had taken some part in this reconstruction. From
this period also date new regulations for a more careful guard of
the entrance to the Acropolis, indicated by the so-called " Akro-
phylakes" and " Pyloroi," who, according to an inscription
{C.I.A. iii. 159) erected an altar to Apollo Agyieus close to the
base of the Agrippa monument. Higher up the slope and on
the projecting foundation walls of the wings of the Propylaea,
on each side of the stairway, Pausanias saw facing each other the
statues of two horsemen of which he says that he was not sure
whether they represented the sons of Xenophon or were merely
decorative. From the portions of the inscribed bases and the
pedestals of these statues that have been found, we now know
that Pausanias was mistaken in connecting these statues with
the sons of Xenophon the historian. The inscribed base and
pedestal of the statue which stood on the south side of the
ascent have been placed in their original relation to the walls
of the Propylaea. The pedestal consists of a number of blocks
°f Pentelic marble, surmounted by a slab of Hymettian marble.
On its upper and lower surfaces this slab of marble bears
marks which show that each of these supported a statue at
different times, but the marks on the two surfaces are so
different that they cannot be those of the same statue. On
each of the two longer of the narrow sides of the slab the
following inscription is carved : " The cavalry [dedicated this
out of the spoils which they took] from the enemy when
I-acedaemonius, Xenophon, and Pronapes were cavalry colonels.