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AND PLTJTO EPIMACHO.S. 393
was a limestone base 2' 6" by 2' f" by 8", with a
hollow for the feet.
A few yards further to the west, and at the same
distance to the south of the escarp, was a series of
rough foundations, running 40' from north to south,
and forming three cells, or chambers. (See the Plan.)
These walls were 2' thick, and built in the rudest
manner of squared stones from some building, inter-
mixed with rubble. Their average depth was 5'.
Within one of the inclosures, and, apparently,
in. its original position, was the base of a small
statue placed on a plinth, both of blue marble.
This base measured 2' 5" by 1' 11" by 1' 1"; the
plinth, 2' 10" by 2' 2-|" by 16".
On the left side of the cavity for the feet was a
socket, in which must have rested a sceptre, held
in the left hand of the figure.
On one side of this base was an arm, and on the
other side a hand, broken from it. These fragments
must have belonged to a small female figure in
Parian marble; no trace, however, of the re-
mainder of the statue was met with. An armlet in
the form of a snake encircles the arm just below
the joint, which it must have served to conceal from
the Rye. A little below the surface of the soil here
was a large spiral shell,g and a small lamp and cup
°f ordinary fabric. In the soil below no trace of
remains presented itself.
The other two compartments were full of lamps,
! This is of a species called Triton variegalus, so rare in the
Mediterranean, that this specimen was probably brought from the
Red Sea.
ii. 2 v
was a limestone base 2' 6" by 2' f" by 8", with a
hollow for the feet.
A few yards further to the west, and at the same
distance to the south of the escarp, was a series of
rough foundations, running 40' from north to south,
and forming three cells, or chambers. (See the Plan.)
These walls were 2' thick, and built in the rudest
manner of squared stones from some building, inter-
mixed with rubble. Their average depth was 5'.
Within one of the inclosures, and, apparently,
in. its original position, was the base of a small
statue placed on a plinth, both of blue marble.
This base measured 2' 5" by 1' 11" by 1' 1"; the
plinth, 2' 10" by 2' 2-|" by 16".
On the left side of the cavity for the feet was a
socket, in which must have rested a sceptre, held
in the left hand of the figure.
On one side of this base was an arm, and on the
other side a hand, broken from it. These fragments
must have belonged to a small female figure in
Parian marble; no trace, however, of the re-
mainder of the statue was met with. An armlet in
the form of a snake encircles the arm just below
the joint, which it must have served to conceal from
the Rye. A little below the surface of the soil here
was a large spiral shell,g and a small lamp and cup
°f ordinary fabric. In the soil below no trace of
remains presented itself.
The other two compartments were full of lamps,
! This is of a species called Triton variegalus, so rare in the
Mediterranean, that this specimen was probably brought from the
Red Sea.
ii. 2 v