Falkener, Edward; Belli, Onorio: A description of some important theatres and other remains in Crete: from a ms. history of Candia by Onorio Belli in 1586 (London, 1854)

THEATRES AND OTHER REMAINS IN CRETE. 25

beneath Mount Ida. It is mentioned by Herodotus and Ste-
phanus. There are the remains of a temple. (A. Z.)

LAPPA sive LAMPA.

The ruins of Lappa may be seen sixteen miles west-south-
west of Rettimo, from the north coast six miles, and from Adra-
mito, on the river Musella, eight miles. It was founded by
Agamemnon, and occupies a most beautiful position on a hill.
There still remains a temple* in very good preservation, in
excavating near which Belli discovered the following inscrip-
tion on the base of a statue:—

(See Boeckh, C. /., No. 2584.)
The following is unpublished :—

<3>AAOYION
IYTQNAO
. . . A1ANON
...NH2ES
...KENKAE
TOISTONrO
. . . IEONAYTOI
KAAOKArAGIA.

There are also the remains of another temple, and those of a
bath. (A. Z.)

RHITHYMNA.

Forty-five miles east of Canea, on the north coast, is the city
of Rettimo, the ancient Khithymna, at the commencement of a
plain, about one mile distant from a stony and sterile moun-
tain. The city was very pleasant till the Turkish armament,
under Allazzaly, sacked and destroyed it in 1571. Upon a hill
in its vicinity are the remains of a square temple, some of the
columns of the portico of which, and one of the alse or sides of
the temple, are extant. (A. Z.)

* It is evident by what Belli says of the temple at Lebena that the accom-
panying plan is the temple here spoken of. This building, also, might be taken
for a bath, with a sphseristerium on each side.