D'Ooge, Martin L.: The Acropolis of Athens (New York, 1908)

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Furtwangler doubts, rightly it seems to me, if the chance of an
accident was awaited to put an end to this building. Furthermore,
as Michaelis points out, iveirpyprB-r] does not mean burn down, and,
as he himself must admit, the fire appears to have extended to the
adjoining Erechtheum, a fact which seems to be attested by the
fragments of an inscription dated 395/4 {C.I.A. ii. 829, to, KtKavfj,zva),
which (if correctly restored) points to this building. That this fire
in the ancient temple of Athena is not identical with the fire in
the opisthodomos mentioned by Demosthenes, has already been shown
above (p. 379). That this older Erechtheum is referred to in the
decree passed by the Athenians in 506 against Cleomenes and his
companions, recorded on a bronze slab placed iv iroXu it-apa tov
«PX<«ov vea>v (Schol. Aristoph. Lys. 273), is probable if this scholium
was an excerpt from the collection of decrees made by Craterus,
in wliich the official title would be carefully preserved. It should
be remarked in addition that 6 apyalos veds is an unusual term in
ancient authors, occurring but once more in literature, sc. in Strabo,
where it is more closely defined by the addition of ij TLoXids and
its reference to the Erechtheum cannot, I think, be doubted.

For the inscriptions in which the title o d/>xa'os occurs, I must
refer the reader to the article of Dr. Cooley cited above and to
Jahn-Michaelis, Arx Athen. p. 65. There is one piece of evidence,
however, discussed by Michaelis that deserves more particular con-
sideration, and that is the famous Hecatompedon inscription dated
485/4 (C.I.A. iv. p. 137-39) found by Lolling, and discussed also
by Dorpfeld, A.M. xv. p. 420; Korte, Rhein. Mus. liii. p. 247;
Dittenberger, Hermes, xxvi. p. 473; Furtwangler, Meisterwerke, p. 166.
No one will dispute that this inscription makes it clear that the
title of the old Athena temple discovered by Dorpfeld was officially
known as the Hecatompedon, and few will question that it strengthens
his theory that the rear part of it was used as treasure chambers. Now
Michaelis attempts to deduce from this inscription the following points :
(i) that vt(!)<s, which according to Dorpfeld refers to the cella of the
Hecatompedon, must refer to an entire temple, and to a different
temple from the Hecatompedon, sc. to the old Athena-Erechtheum
sanctuary. The simple designation 6 vews he believes is used here
in the same way as o /3w/t6s of the great altar (cf. Jahn-Mich. Arx
Athen. 26, 20) in distinction from other altars, and as to ayoXpo.
of the old wooden image. This is a possible inference, but more
than that cannot be said for it.

(2) From this inscription we gain the interesting piece of informa-