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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.4377#0060
390 TEMENOS OF DEMETER, PERSEPHONE,
layers previously to the fall of the vault and mar-
bles.
The pottery, glass rods, and hair-pins, appear to
have been also placed on the ground in the posi-
tion in which I found them.
The chamber may have been a kind of treasury
or place of deposit for small votive offerings, and
the sculpture and inscriptions may have stood
round the outside of the walls, or have sur-
mounted the roof. They may thus have been
thrown into the position in which I found them
when the vault fell in.
If they had originally been placed inside the
chamber, they must have rested on brackets, or on
some kind of platform or floor higher than the
level of the basement where the glass was lying.
No traces, however, of such supports appeared
inside the chamber.
Though the relation of these marbles to the
structure in which they were discovered cannot
be satisfactorily determined, it would appear that,
when found, they were still lying on the spot
where they had been broken, and near which it
may be presumed they originally stood.
In the case of many of the broken objects, all
the fragments were recovered, and the ed<2;es of
the fractures were so fresh that they could never
have been disturbed since their fall.
The bones found in the lower stratum of the
soil proved, upon examination, to be those of
the hog, a small kind of ox, the goat, and birds
about the size of the common fowl or dove. These
layers previously to the fall of the vault and mar-
bles.
The pottery, glass rods, and hair-pins, appear to
have been also placed on the ground in the posi-
tion in which I found them.
The chamber may have been a kind of treasury
or place of deposit for small votive offerings, and
the sculpture and inscriptions may have stood
round the outside of the walls, or have sur-
mounted the roof. They may thus have been
thrown into the position in which I found them
when the vault fell in.
If they had originally been placed inside the
chamber, they must have rested on brackets, or on
some kind of platform or floor higher than the
level of the basement where the glass was lying.
No traces, however, of such supports appeared
inside the chamber.
Though the relation of these marbles to the
structure in which they were discovered cannot
be satisfactorily determined, it would appear that,
when found, they were still lying on the spot
where they had been broken, and near which it
may be presumed they originally stood.
In the case of many of the broken objects, all
the fragments were recovered, and the ed<2;es of
the fractures were so fresh that they could never
have been disturbed since their fall.
The bones found in the lower stratum of the
soil proved, upon examination, to be those of
the hog, a small kind of ox, the goat, and birds
about the size of the common fowl or dove. These