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THE SITE OF CXIDTTS. 367
formed a part. It is to be presumed that the
Theopompos whose name is thus preserved, was
either the father or the son of the Artemidoros
who was a friend to Julius Ca3sar ; and the oc-
currence of this name in so conspicuous a part of
the edifice would lead us to ascribe its erection to
the Augustan rather than the Macedonian age.
It is, however, quite possible that Theopompos,
the father of Artemidoros, may have completed
or repaired the work of Sostratos.
The base on which the stoa Avas built was the
native rock artificially levelled, along the southern
side of a large rectangular platform, bounded on the
east and north by a street, and on the west by a
terrace wall.
In the centre of this platform are the ruins of a
small Corinthian temple, of which a restoration is
given in the Dilettanti volume, Plates IV.—X.
Colonel Leake (ibid. p. 22) supposes that this
temple was dedicated to Venus, and contained the
celebrated statue of that goddess executed by Prax-
iteles. His reasons for this opinion will be con-
sidered in a later part of this work.
Immediately to the south of the Doric stoa are
the ruins of a Byzantine church. Here the Dilettanti
mission noticed some fragments of Corinthian
columns, indicating that the diameter of the shaft
was four feet. These were of defective execution.
Below these ruins is a broad terrace, overlooking
an oblong level area, equal in length to the terrace.
The latter forms the peribolus of a large temple, the
ruins of which lie intermixed with those of a
formed a part. It is to be presumed that the
Theopompos whose name is thus preserved, was
either the father or the son of the Artemidoros
who was a friend to Julius Ca3sar ; and the oc-
currence of this name in so conspicuous a part of
the edifice would lead us to ascribe its erection to
the Augustan rather than the Macedonian age.
It is, however, quite possible that Theopompos,
the father of Artemidoros, may have completed
or repaired the work of Sostratos.
The base on which the stoa Avas built was the
native rock artificially levelled, along the southern
side of a large rectangular platform, bounded on the
east and north by a street, and on the west by a
terrace wall.
In the centre of this platform are the ruins of a
small Corinthian temple, of which a restoration is
given in the Dilettanti volume, Plates IV.—X.
Colonel Leake (ibid. p. 22) supposes that this
temple was dedicated to Venus, and contained the
celebrated statue of that goddess executed by Prax-
iteles. His reasons for this opinion will be con-
sidered in a later part of this work.
Immediately to the south of the Doric stoa are
the ruins of a Byzantine church. Here the Dilettanti
mission noticed some fragments of Corinthian
columns, indicating that the diameter of the shaft
was four feet. These were of defective execution.
Below these ruins is a broad terrace, overlooking
an oblong level area, equal in length to the terrace.
The latter forms the peribolus of a large temple, the
ruins of which lie intermixed with those of a