Newton, Charles T. [Editor]; Pullan, Richard P. [Editor]: A history of discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae (Band 2, Teil 2) (London, 1863)

52S EXPEDITION TO BliANCHIDiE.

The Temple of Apollo at Branchidse has "been
fully delineated and described in the first volume of
the "Ionian Antiquities,"" but the statues which
formed the principal object of my visit are noticed
in that work in a very cursory manner. They are
described as ranged in a line with ancient sarco-
phagi along both sides of the Sacred Way which
led up to the Temple of Apollo from the north-
west, and their several positions are marked in Sir
William Gell's plan of the environs of the Temple.1'

It is further stated in the " Ionian Antiquities,"
p. 48, that on the hases of these statues are inscrip-
tions in very ancient characters ; but no copies of
such inscriptions are given, nor any delineation of
the statues themselves, except in a small vignette,
ibid. p. 29.

This engraving,0 which gives a general view of the
ancient remains in the Sacred Way, though not a
true representation of the site, serves to show
the peculiar character of the statues. They are exe-
cuted in a style presenting so strong a resemblance
to the Egyptian as to suggest the idea that they
were the work of Greek artists who had been
educated in Egypt.

The country traversed hy the Sacred Way forms
part of an uninclosed district round the Temple,

il Ionian Antiquities, Part i. c. 3, pp. 30—52.

•' Ibid, pi; I.

c Republished by K. O. Mueller, Denkmaeler d. A. Kunst. i.
taf. 9, fig. 33. A more accurate view of three of these statues is
given in the notice of the Sacred Way by L. Ross, in Gerhard's
Denkmaelei-, Forschungen, ifcc. Berlin, 1849. No. 13, Taf. xiii.
pp. 130-1.