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TRGEZEN. 121
On entering the walls from the west, the first object is the church of
the Panagia Episkopi on the right, below which seem to be indica-
tions of a stadium, one side of which was natural, and the other a
bank. From the position of this church it is very possibly placed on
the site of the temple of Venus Kataskopia mentioned by Pausa-
nias. It contains at present some remains of antiquity, a column of
grey marble, another of white, and the fragment of a larger column
of the Doric order in the wall, also two pedestals and an inscription.
In the road from this church to Damala, at the distance of about
four minutes, observe on the left three columns, bearing a strong re-
semblance both in form and colour to columns of black basalt. Many
of these are found among the ruins of Troezen. They have been
well cut, into eight flat faces, diminishing upwards, so that being
seven feet one inch in circumference, they measure only six feet nine
at three feet from the base. The faces were at the base about 11
inches, and at the top of the stone only nine inches and a half.
The holes into which brazen or wooden cubes were inserted for
the purpose of uniting the different blocks, are seven inches and a
half square. They were probably like those of the Propylaea at
Athens, composed of cedar or juniper. It is not impossible that
these columns, which are so much more simple than any others in
Greece, may have been those of the very ancient temple of Apollo
Thearius mentioned by Pausanias. On the western side of the rock,
which seems to have been a citadel, a brook runs in a deep ravine. It
is in all probability the brook Chrysoroas. It now turns two mills.
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On entering the walls from the west, the first object is the church of
the Panagia Episkopi on the right, below which seem to be indica-
tions of a stadium, one side of which was natural, and the other a
bank. From the position of this church it is very possibly placed on
the site of the temple of Venus Kataskopia mentioned by Pausa-
nias. It contains at present some remains of antiquity, a column of
grey marble, another of white, and the fragment of a larger column
of the Doric order in the wall, also two pedestals and an inscription.
In the road from this church to Damala, at the distance of about
four minutes, observe on the left three columns, bearing a strong re-
semblance both in form and colour to columns of black basalt. Many
of these are found among the ruins of Troezen. They have been
well cut, into eight flat faces, diminishing upwards, so that being
seven feet one inch in circumference, they measure only six feet nine
at three feet from the base. The faces were at the base about 11
inches, and at the top of the stone only nine inches and a half.
The holes into which brazen or wooden cubes were inserted for
the purpose of uniting the different blocks, are seven inches and a
half square. They were probably like those of the Propylaea at
Athens, composed of cedar or juniper. It is not impossible that
these columns, which are so much more simple than any others in
Greece, may have been those of the very ancient temple of Apollo
Thearius mentioned by Pausanias. On the western side of the rock,
which seems to have been a citadel, a brook runs in a deep ravine. It
is in all probability the brook Chrysoroas. It now turns two mills.
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