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a white marble. The walls on the peninsula are also well
preserved, containing a round tower of great beauty at the
extremity, near the northern harbour.
Although the remains within the walls are highly inte-
resting, we found no traces of public buildings or temples
to indicate its former splendour. With the exception of
the two theatres, both in a ruined condition, a long Doric
stoa or portico, the basement of a large building, perhaps
a temple, and the extensive vaulted substruction of another
large building apparently of a more modern date, the re-
mains consisted chiefly of lines of streets and private dwell-
ings, steps leading from one terrace to another on the side
of the hill, and circular or pear-shaped cisterns in the
ground, covered within by a coat of cement. These were
probably reservoirs for containing water : one seems to have
been attached to almost every house, and indeed the}' appear
to have been the only means by which water was obtained,
for there is neither stream nor fountain anywhere near.
Amongst the ruins of the town and neighbouring tombs we
found numerous inscriptions :* many of them, particularly
those on sepulchral monuments, are written in the Doric
dialect. AAM02 instead of AHMOS is of constant occur-
rence, as well as TAX MATPOS for TH2 MHTP02.
No. 287 is interesting from its being dedicated to Apollo
Carneus. We learn from Pausaniasf and other writers J
that this was one of the names under which Apollo was
worshipped, first by the Lacedemonians, and afterwards by
the Dorienses, amongst whom are mentioned the Sicyoni-
ans, who through Hercules had become Dorians, and who
possessed a temple dedicated to Apollo Carneus. § Pau-
sanias also states, that the veneration which the Dorienses
paid to Apollo Carneus arose from Camus of Acarnania
having acquired the art of divination from Apollo : he adds,
that when Hippotus slew Carnus, Apollo made the Dorian
camp feel the effects of his anger. Cnidus was founded
* See Appendix, Nos. 284—296. f Lac-, lib. "i- <=• 13-
X Potter, Antiq. of Greece, vol. i. p. 468. § Paus., Cor., lib. ii. c. 10.
APOLLO CARNEUS.
41
a white marble. The walls on the peninsula are also well
preserved, containing a round tower of great beauty at the
extremity, near the northern harbour.
Although the remains within the walls are highly inte-
resting, we found no traces of public buildings or temples
to indicate its former splendour. With the exception of
the two theatres, both in a ruined condition, a long Doric
stoa or portico, the basement of a large building, perhaps
a temple, and the extensive vaulted substruction of another
large building apparently of a more modern date, the re-
mains consisted chiefly of lines of streets and private dwell-
ings, steps leading from one terrace to another on the side
of the hill, and circular or pear-shaped cisterns in the
ground, covered within by a coat of cement. These were
probably reservoirs for containing water : one seems to have
been attached to almost every house, and indeed the}' appear
to have been the only means by which water was obtained,
for there is neither stream nor fountain anywhere near.
Amongst the ruins of the town and neighbouring tombs we
found numerous inscriptions :* many of them, particularly
those on sepulchral monuments, are written in the Doric
dialect. AAM02 instead of AHMOS is of constant occur-
rence, as well as TAX MATPOS for TH2 MHTP02.
No. 287 is interesting from its being dedicated to Apollo
Carneus. We learn from Pausaniasf and other writers J
that this was one of the names under which Apollo was
worshipped, first by the Lacedemonians, and afterwards by
the Dorienses, amongst whom are mentioned the Sicyoni-
ans, who through Hercules had become Dorians, and who
possessed a temple dedicated to Apollo Carneus. § Pau-
sanias also states, that the veneration which the Dorienses
paid to Apollo Carneus arose from Camus of Acarnania
having acquired the art of divination from Apollo : he adds,
that when Hippotus slew Carnus, Apollo made the Dorian
camp feel the effects of his anger. Cnidus was founded
* See Appendix, Nos. 284—296. f Lac-, lib. "i- <=• 13-
X Potter, Antiq. of Greece, vol. i. p. 468. § Paus., Cor., lib. ii. c. 10.