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have been completely explored without a con-
siderable outlay, and as the discoveries which have
been made here were chiefly interesting in so far
as they threw light on the topography of Cnidus,
I did not pursue this excavation farther. It is,
however, possible that more extended researches
might bring to light the plan of some large build-
ing, of which the alcove and the steps leading up
to it may have formed a part.'1

(1 In the notice of this work by Professor Gerhard (Archaolo-
gischer Auzeiger, No. 158, 1862, p. 279*), he describes the alcove
as a tribune or bema for orators ; but the ground below did not
seem adapted for the accommodation of an audience. The semi-
circular foundation rather suggests to me the idea that judges of
some kind had their seat here, perhaps for the purpose of awarding
prizes for musical performers in the adjacent Odeum.