Dyer, Thomas Henry: Ancient Athens: Its history, topography, and remains (London, 1873)

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priest of the Aulonean Dionysus. 3. tepe'ax? Xi0o<p6pov, priest who
carried the stone. 4. lepews (drjcriws, priest of Theseus. 5. lepicos Aws
reXeiov ftovl^vyov, priest of Zeus Teleios, or the perfecter, of the race of
the Bouzygae. 6. iepeca Atfp,r)Tpos /cat, <£>epe<pu.TTr]<;, priest of Demeter
and Persephone.

This is the last compartment on the western side of the theatre, and
completes the number of thirty-three seats, counting from the right hand
of the priest of Dionysus." We will now specify those that remain on
his left hand; of which we have already mentioned those of Zeus Polieus,
and of the Sacrificer, who sat in the same pempas or compartment as
the priest of Dionysus.

The next compartment on his left, which we will mark H, has only
the first three seats remaining, viz. No. 1. lepop,vrjp,ovo<;, seat of the
hieromnemon. 2. iepicos ical ap^iepeo)? XefidaTov Katcrapos, priest and
chief priest of Augustus Caesar. 3. iepeax; 'ASpiavov i\ev6epa.Lco<; (sic),
priest of Hadrian, the deliverer, or saviour. Nos. 4 and 5 are missing,
and also the first four of the next compartment, I. No. 5 in this com-
partment is inscribed Ho\ep,dp^ov, seat of the polemarch.

The following compartment, K, is perfect. The first four thrones
were appropriated to thesmothetae, having each the inscription
®eafio0irov. The thrones of the remaining two thesmothetae were
probably among the missing ones. The last seat, No. 5, in this com-
partment is inscribed lepoKr)pvKo<;, seat of the holy herald.

The thrones of the next compartment, L, are entirely gone; and of
the following one, M, only the last three remain: viz. No. 3. leperis
'A7to\X<bi'os ZaarTrjpiov, priest of Apollo at Zoster; No. 4. lepeta *laic-
Xayayov, seat of the priest who carried the image of Iacchus, or infant
Dionysus; and No. 5. lepers 'Ao-tcKrjTrtov, priest of Asclepius. We
must observe that the throne of the priest of the Zosterian Apollo was
not in situ when the theatre was excavated. It was found some years
before the excavation was begun, in 1853, in what is called the metro-
polis ; but as it evidently belonged to the theatre, it has been restored
to it.1

1 See the ' Ephemeris' for 18G2, p. 218.

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