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416 TEMENOS OF DEMETER, PERSEPHONE,
Other local traditions placed the scene of tills
myth in Sicily, Crete, and elsewhere; always, pro-
bably, in some spot where the landscape presented
some peculiar feature in harmony with the legend."
Beyond the eastern boundary of the temenos, the
escarp extends about 50'. To the west it has been
broken away about 50' to the east of the western
boundary-line.
A portion of similar escarp appears along the
side of the mountain, about 50' to the west of the
platform.
This portion is not in the same line as the escarp
of the temenos.
After completely exploring the site of the teme-
nos itself, I dug a considerable breadth outside its
eastern and western boundaries.
No antiquities were found in the soil outside the
temenos ; its limits may, therefore, be regarded as
clearly ascertained.
According to the statement made to us by an
old Turk at Cnidus, a small headless statue, repre-
senting a young girl crouching down, was found
outside the temenos, a little to the east of its
eastern boundary about forty years ago, and was
carried off by a party of Franks landing in a caique.
" Lobeck (Aglaopharaus, p. 832) shows that the cave through
which Pluto descended into the Infernal regions with Persephone
was called in Soman mythology Mundus. At Rome appears to
have been such a cave, or mundus, dedicated to Pluto and Per-
sephone, which was only opened for three days in the year. Cf.
Festus, s. v. Mundus. At the hill of Kronion at Olympia Demeter
was called Chamyne, because, according to Pansanias, vi. 21, 1, the
earth had opened there and closed again, x«ruj< «t< uuOicp.vaau
Other local traditions placed the scene of tills
myth in Sicily, Crete, and elsewhere; always, pro-
bably, in some spot where the landscape presented
some peculiar feature in harmony with the legend."
Beyond the eastern boundary of the temenos, the
escarp extends about 50'. To the west it has been
broken away about 50' to the east of the western
boundary-line.
A portion of similar escarp appears along the
side of the mountain, about 50' to the west of the
platform.
This portion is not in the same line as the escarp
of the temenos.
After completely exploring the site of the teme-
nos itself, I dug a considerable breadth outside its
eastern and western boundaries.
No antiquities were found in the soil outside the
temenos ; its limits may, therefore, be regarded as
clearly ascertained.
According to the statement made to us by an
old Turk at Cnidus, a small headless statue, repre-
senting a young girl crouching down, was found
outside the temenos, a little to the east of its
eastern boundary about forty years ago, and was
carried off by a party of Franks landing in a caique.
" Lobeck (Aglaopharaus, p. 832) shows that the cave through
which Pluto descended into the Infernal regions with Persephone
was called in Soman mythology Mundus. At Rome appears to
have been such a cave, or mundus, dedicated to Pluto and Per-
sephone, which was only opened for three days in the year. Cf.
Festus, s. v. Mundus. At the hill of Kronion at Olympia Demeter
was called Chamyne, because, according to Pansanias, vi. 21, 1, the
earth had opened there and closed again, x«ruj< «t< uuOicp.vaau