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36S TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OP
Byzantine church. It will ho subsequently shown
that there are good reasons for supposing' that this
temple was sacred to Dionysos. Immediately to the
east of the peribolus is a theatre, of which the plan
and details are given in the Dilettanti volume, Plates
XXII.—XXV. The part of the peribolus between
the temple and theatre is shown in the view of the
encampment of the expedition, Plate LI I.
To the west of the peribolus is a long street,
leading straight up from the isthmus to a gate in
the northern wall. Immediately to the west of
this street are the ruins of a small Doric temple on
the shox'e of the smaller harbour; and beyond this
on the same shore a square area, inclosed by a
colonnade, which was probably the Agora?
North of this is a building marked " Corinthian
Temple" in the Plan, which is situated near a
fountain. In proceeding northward along the
street leading from the isthmus to the city gate,
nothing but Byzantine ruins meet the eye. The
ground is covered with dense brushwood, amid
which appear, at intervals, the fragments of many
vaulted roofs built of concrete and rabble, which
have fallen in solid masses. In the centre of the
high terrace wall which forms the Avestern boundary
of the great platform already described, is a very
small theatre, of a late period. On the northern
b On the shore, between the Agora and the isthmus, I found a
marble inscribed with a dedication to Athene Nikephoros and
Hestia Boulaia (Appendix, No. 79). From the mention of Hes-
tia in this inscription, it probably belonged to the Frytaneum,
which may have stood somewhere on this shore.
Byzantine church. It will ho subsequently shown
that there are good reasons for supposing' that this
temple was sacred to Dionysos. Immediately to the
east of the peribolus is a theatre, of which the plan
and details are given in the Dilettanti volume, Plates
XXII.—XXV. The part of the peribolus between
the temple and theatre is shown in the view of the
encampment of the expedition, Plate LI I.
To the west of the peribolus is a long street,
leading straight up from the isthmus to a gate in
the northern wall. Immediately to the west of
this street are the ruins of a small Doric temple on
the shox'e of the smaller harbour; and beyond this
on the same shore a square area, inclosed by a
colonnade, which was probably the Agora?
North of this is a building marked " Corinthian
Temple" in the Plan, which is situated near a
fountain. In proceeding northward along the
street leading from the isthmus to the city gate,
nothing but Byzantine ruins meet the eye. The
ground is covered with dense brushwood, amid
which appear, at intervals, the fragments of many
vaulted roofs built of concrete and rabble, which
have fallen in solid masses. In the centre of the
high terrace wall which forms the Avestern boundary
of the great platform already described, is a very
small theatre, of a late period. On the northern
b On the shore, between the Agora and the isthmus, I found a
marble inscribed with a dedication to Athene Nikephoros and
Hestia Boulaia (Appendix, No. 79). From the mention of Hes-
tia in this inscription, it probably belonged to the Frytaneum,
which may have stood somewhere on this shore.