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392 TEilENOS OF DEMETER, PERSEPHONE,
After Ave had dug down to the foundations of the
chamber, which are about 7' below the surface, the
soil was explored to a depth of about 2' lower.
As no antiquities were found in this lower soil, the
excavation was not continued within the chamber.
I then proceeded to remove the upper surface
of the platform west of this chamber, digging
everywhere to the depth of about 3'.
A little farther to the west we discovered two
small marble footstools, one of which is represented
Plate LVIIL, fig. 14. It is inscribed with tbe name
of the priestess Pbilis (Plate LXXXIX., No. 23f),
and measures 15" square by 12f".
At the distance of 11/ 5" from the chamber
was a plinth level with the surface, composed of
two large travertine slabs, on which two others
were placed at right angles: each of these slabs
measured 4' by 2' by 13". At the side of this
plinth was another similar one. (See the Plan.)
Twenty feet to the west of this pair of plinths
chamber discovered by me may have been so termed. The dis-
covery of pig's bones on the lowest stratum may be thought to
confirm this conjecture. It should, however, be noted, that in a
number of jxissages cited by Lobeck, i. p. 59, fieyapa or avaicropa
are mentioned, not as detached buildings within a tcmenos, but
rather as a part of the temple itself.
f For dedications by priestesses, compare the two marbles found
at Amyclse, and published by the late Earl of Aberdeen, Walpole's
" Memoirs relating to Turkey," p. 452. On each of these are
sculptured representations of various articles of female toilet, with
an inscription stating that they were dedicated by a priestess called
on the one lipeia, on the other v-ocrrarpia. These marbles have
been recently presented to the British Museum by the present
Earl of Aberdeen.
After Ave had dug down to the foundations of the
chamber, which are about 7' below the surface, the
soil was explored to a depth of about 2' lower.
As no antiquities were found in this lower soil, the
excavation was not continued within the chamber.
I then proceeded to remove the upper surface
of the platform west of this chamber, digging
everywhere to the depth of about 3'.
A little farther to the west we discovered two
small marble footstools, one of which is represented
Plate LVIIL, fig. 14. It is inscribed with tbe name
of the priestess Pbilis (Plate LXXXIX., No. 23f),
and measures 15" square by 12f".
At the distance of 11/ 5" from the chamber
was a plinth level with the surface, composed of
two large travertine slabs, on which two others
were placed at right angles: each of these slabs
measured 4' by 2' by 13". At the side of this
plinth was another similar one. (See the Plan.)
Twenty feet to the west of this pair of plinths
chamber discovered by me may have been so termed. The dis-
covery of pig's bones on the lowest stratum may be thought to
confirm this conjecture. It should, however, be noted, that in a
number of jxissages cited by Lobeck, i. p. 59, fieyapa or avaicropa
are mentioned, not as detached buildings within a tcmenos, but
rather as a part of the temple itself.
f For dedications by priestesses, compare the two marbles found
at Amyclse, and published by the late Earl of Aberdeen, Walpole's
" Memoirs relating to Turkey," p. 452. On each of these are
sculptured representations of various articles of female toilet, with
an inscription stating that they were dedicated by a priestess called
on the one lipeia, on the other v-ocrrarpia. These marbles have
been recently presented to the British Museum by the present
Earl of Aberdeen.