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478 ANCIENT 110AD.
basements surrounded by a pcribohis Avail 125'
square. This wall is in a very perfect state except
on the north side. The entrance is at the south-
east angle. The basements are each about 20'
square. Upon them have anciently stood small
pillars composed of hexagonal blocks placed one on
another, each course consisting of a single block.
It is probable, as the authors of the Dilettanti
Mission and other travellers have supposed, that
these structures were surmounted by bronze
tripods.
The hexagonal blocks are now all thrown down,
and lie round the basements, of which, as will be
seen by the section in Plate LXXIIL, very little
appears above ground. I dug all round these base-
ments and cut trenches in several parts of t\\e peri-
bolus. In the most western of the two basements
were on each side small square-headed thecce, shown
in the Plan, in which I found three small sori,
of which the largest measured 1' 11|" by 1' 6" by
!'■£". One of these was inscribed with the word
"Hpa, and on the fragment of another was the
word Kovporpotpov. (See Plate XCIV. Nos. 55, 56.)
The latter of these inscriptions doubtless has
reference to the Chthonic deity Ge, or Demeter
Kourotrophos.
Nothing was found in any of the cells, and it
was evident, from the position of the sori, that they
had been opened and disturbed. Prom the size of
the peribolus with which these tombs are encircled,
it may be inferred that the space thus reserved
basements surrounded by a pcribohis Avail 125'
square. This wall is in a very perfect state except
on the north side. The entrance is at the south-
east angle. The basements are each about 20'
square. Upon them have anciently stood small
pillars composed of hexagonal blocks placed one on
another, each course consisting of a single block.
It is probable, as the authors of the Dilettanti
Mission and other travellers have supposed, that
these structures were surmounted by bronze
tripods.
The hexagonal blocks are now all thrown down,
and lie round the basements, of which, as will be
seen by the section in Plate LXXIIL, very little
appears above ground. I dug all round these base-
ments and cut trenches in several parts of t\\e peri-
bolus. In the most western of the two basements
were on each side small square-headed thecce, shown
in the Plan, in which I found three small sori,
of which the largest measured 1' 11|" by 1' 6" by
!'■£". One of these was inscribed with the word
"Hpa, and on the fragment of another was the
word Kovporpotpov. (See Plate XCIV. Nos. 55, 56.)
The latter of these inscriptions doubtless has
reference to the Chthonic deity Ge, or Demeter
Kourotrophos.
Nothing was found in any of the cells, and it
was evident, from the position of the sori, that they
had been opened and disturbed. Prom the size of
the peribolus with which these tombs are encircled,
it may be inferred that the space thus reserved