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376 TEMBNOS OF DEMETElt, PERSEPHONE,
To the north the level of the platform terminates
in broken rocky ground, bounded by a natural
wall of precipice, which has here a uniform surface,
sloping at an angle of 79° with such regularity as
to suggest the idea that it has been scarped by the
hand of man. This natural wall is from 50' to
70' high, and about 320' in length.
In the steep face of the rock three niches are
cut, which must have contained statues or other
votive objects. (Plates LIII. LIT.) Of these
niches, the one on the right has on its base a
Greek inscription, of which only a few letters
can be deciphered. It contains a dedication to
Demetcr in two lines. (See Appendix, No. 80.)
This niche is 4' I" high by 2' 2|" deep. Its width
is 2' 5£".
The niche on the left, which is the tallest of the
three, has been lined with a fine cement, painted
bright blue, so as to form a background for a
statue. Much of this lining still remains in the
niche. The colour is a pigment, which seems to
have been chymically united with the cement, as
in fresco.
In the " Ionian Antiquities " " and Admiralty
a Pt. iii. p. 22. " Near its entrance into the city, and immedi-
ately under the citadel, the rock, rising perpendicularly, is worked
fair some forty or fifty feet high ; in the lower part of this artificial
face are three niches, one small and two larger, with architectural
fronts consisting of anta: on an inscribed but now illegible sill.
The capitals, which were of a different material, no longer exist.
Bcfoi'e this rock spreads a terrace 150' wide, formed of polygonal
masonry, of which the partiall}' strait beds of the return sides
incline very much to the slope of the hill. Before and below this
To the north the level of the platform terminates
in broken rocky ground, bounded by a natural
wall of precipice, which has here a uniform surface,
sloping at an angle of 79° with such regularity as
to suggest the idea that it has been scarped by the
hand of man. This natural wall is from 50' to
70' high, and about 320' in length.
In the steep face of the rock three niches are
cut, which must have contained statues or other
votive objects. (Plates LIII. LIT.) Of these
niches, the one on the right has on its base a
Greek inscription, of which only a few letters
can be deciphered. It contains a dedication to
Demetcr in two lines. (See Appendix, No. 80.)
This niche is 4' I" high by 2' 2|" deep. Its width
is 2' 5£".
The niche on the left, which is the tallest of the
three, has been lined with a fine cement, painted
bright blue, so as to form a background for a
statue. Much of this lining still remains in the
niche. The colour is a pigment, which seems to
have been chymically united with the cement, as
in fresco.
In the " Ionian Antiquities " " and Admiralty
a Pt. iii. p. 22. " Near its entrance into the city, and immedi-
ately under the citadel, the rock, rising perpendicularly, is worked
fair some forty or fifty feet high ; in the lower part of this artificial
face are three niches, one small and two larger, with architectural
fronts consisting of anta: on an inscribed but now illegible sill.
The capitals, which were of a different material, no longer exist.
Bcfoi'e this rock spreads a terrace 150' wide, formed of polygonal
masonry, of which the partiall}' strait beds of the return sides
incline very much to the slope of the hill. Before and below this