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GYMNASIUM, ETC. 465
fragments I noticed foliage painted in umber,
and on one a fruit in crimson. Green is occasionr
ally used.
All the decorative architecture on this site has
been executed in fine travertine covered with
stucco. :
We dug up some fragments of Ionic capitals and
other architectural members, all in this material.
The stucco is very well preserved.
In the west part of the in closure are two wells,
which I cleared out. They contained nothing but
a bronze dish, a saucer of red Samian ware, and
part of a small terracotta female figure, of the
lloman period. One of these wells was eight
fathoms deep ; at the bottom was a spring.
From the general plan of the building which
occupies this site, I have thought that it may have
formed part of a Gymnasium; and this conjecture
is confirmed by the discovery of the base of the
terminal statue of Hermes, the special patron of
the palastra, the dedication to the same Deity as
7rsKrivovs, and the mention of a Gymnasium in the
inscription found near this spot, which has been
noticed, ante, p, 458. If we suppose a Gymnasium
to have extended over this site, it probably oc-
cupied much of the extensive area in the centre
of which the Corinthian temple stands, and the
Doric portico on the south may have been a portion
of it.
The discovery on this site of two inscriptions in
which the name of Artemis Iakynthotrophos occurs,
inclines me to think that the Corinthian temple was
fragments I noticed foliage painted in umber,
and on one a fruit in crimson. Green is occasionr
ally used.
All the decorative architecture on this site has
been executed in fine travertine covered with
stucco. :
We dug up some fragments of Ionic capitals and
other architectural members, all in this material.
The stucco is very well preserved.
In the west part of the in closure are two wells,
which I cleared out. They contained nothing but
a bronze dish, a saucer of red Samian ware, and
part of a small terracotta female figure, of the
lloman period. One of these wells was eight
fathoms deep ; at the bottom was a spring.
From the general plan of the building which
occupies this site, I have thought that it may have
formed part of a Gymnasium; and this conjecture
is confirmed by the discovery of the base of the
terminal statue of Hermes, the special patron of
the palastra, the dedication to the same Deity as
7rsKrivovs, and the mention of a Gymnasium in the
inscription found near this spot, which has been
noticed, ante, p, 458. If we suppose a Gymnasium
to have extended over this site, it probably oc-
cupied much of the extensive area in the centre
of which the Corinthian temple stands, and the
Doric portico on the south may have been a portion
of it.
The discovery on this site of two inscriptions in
which the name of Artemis Iakynthotrophos occurs,
inclines me to think that the Corinthian temple was