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LIOX TOMB. 499
once in scale must have been originally very muck
less, perhaps not more than a quarter of an inch,
as the Cnidian lion has suffered much from cor-
rosion of the surface. The lion at Venice was
taken ky Morosini from tke skore of tke Piraeus,
and tkere can hardly he a doukt that it once
ornamented an Athenian tomb, probably a Poly-
andrion, erected in honour of some victory, con-
temporary in date with that gained by Conon."
At Palatia, the site of the ancient Miletus, are
two colossal marble lions, both of which seem to
be connected with tombs.
One of these I found lying on a plain, about 400
yards to the west of a ruined marble mosque, which
hour distant from the monastery of St. John at the foot of Hy-
mettus, and is situated near a church in great measure composed
of ancient blocks of stone. It is engraved in Dodwell, Travels in
Greece, London, 1810, i. p. 523-4. rjsee also Wordsworth, Greece,
p. 122.]] Dodwell here states that one of the colossal lions taken
by the Venetians from Athens formed part of a fountain, the water
of which was intended to gush from its mouth.
Ibid. p. 370. " In the year, 1G54, Du Loir saw a large statue
of a lion of white marble near the temple of Theseus, which was
also noticed by Guillatiore fifteen years afterwards, and by Coi'nelio
Magni in 1074. Guillatiere asserts that it was in a couching
position." In the inland of Ceos, Brondstedt found a colossal lion
sculptured out of an immense block of rock which formed its base.
(See his Voyages dans la GrCce, i. pp. 30, 31, PI. 11.) He states
that this lion measured 29 feet in length by 10 feet in height,
and supposes it to be alluded to by Herakleides Ponticus, Do
Rebus Publicis (art. KtiW).
0 We might, indeed, suppose that the lion of the Pirrcus was
erected to commemorate Conon's great naval victory, as the coun-
terpart of the monument of the Cnidian monument, were it not
that we know that the Athenians commemorated this same victory
by a dedication to Aphrodite in her temple on the shore of the
Piraeus.—See Pausau, i. 1. 3.
once in scale must have been originally very muck
less, perhaps not more than a quarter of an inch,
as the Cnidian lion has suffered much from cor-
rosion of the surface. The lion at Venice was
taken ky Morosini from tke skore of tke Piraeus,
and tkere can hardly he a doukt that it once
ornamented an Athenian tomb, probably a Poly-
andrion, erected in honour of some victory, con-
temporary in date with that gained by Conon."
At Palatia, the site of the ancient Miletus, are
two colossal marble lions, both of which seem to
be connected with tombs.
One of these I found lying on a plain, about 400
yards to the west of a ruined marble mosque, which
hour distant from the monastery of St. John at the foot of Hy-
mettus, and is situated near a church in great measure composed
of ancient blocks of stone. It is engraved in Dodwell, Travels in
Greece, London, 1810, i. p. 523-4. rjsee also Wordsworth, Greece,
p. 122.]] Dodwell here states that one of the colossal lions taken
by the Venetians from Athens formed part of a fountain, the water
of which was intended to gush from its mouth.
Ibid. p. 370. " In the year, 1G54, Du Loir saw a large statue
of a lion of white marble near the temple of Theseus, which was
also noticed by Guillatiore fifteen years afterwards, and by Coi'nelio
Magni in 1074. Guillatiere asserts that it was in a couching
position." In the inland of Ceos, Brondstedt found a colossal lion
sculptured out of an immense block of rock which formed its base.
(See his Voyages dans la GrCce, i. pp. 30, 31, PI. 11.) He states
that this lion measured 29 feet in length by 10 feet in height,
and supposes it to be alluded to by Herakleides Ponticus, Do
Rebus Publicis (art. KtiW).
0 We might, indeed, suppose that the lion of the Pirrcus was
erected to commemorate Conon's great naval victory, as the coun-
terpart of the monument of the Cnidian monument, were it not
that we know that the Athenians commemorated this same victory
by a dedication to Aphrodite in her temple on the shore of the
Piraeus.—See Pausau, i. 1. 3.