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CHAPTER XVI.

TEMPLE OF THE MUSES.

Site of Temple of Muses ; discovery of dedicatory inscription, with
artist's name ; plan of the Temple ; architectural remains ;
roof-tile ; later Byzantine remains ; inscriptions ; false arch ;
passage with tessellated pavement; Corinthian capitals, probably
designed as supports for isolated objects. Original application
of the Corinthian order ; remains of sculpture ; statuettes of
Muses; heads; votive breasts; cippiis dedicated to Apollo
Pythius by a Demiourgos; niches in the walls; terracotta
disks.

On the north side of the larger harbour, about
200 yards to the north-east of the alcove, marked
in the plan, is a small platform, covered with By-
zantine ruins, and bounded on the south by an
Hellenic wall. The extreme beauty of the masonry
in this wall induced me to make an excavation here.

On digging about the centre of the platform,
I came upon Byzantine foundations, and, at the
deptli of about 3', discovered an inscription (Plate
XCIL, No. 43), which had been built into a Byzan-
tine wall; also the lower half of a draped female
figure, which has been about 2' high.

The drapery is well composed, and the style of
the sculpture appears to be of the Macedonian period,
to which date I would also assign the inscription.

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