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own temple.1 Pausanias was told that ' this olive, being burnt when
the Persians took the city, grew again on the same day to the
height of two cubits.'2 In her sanctuary too was the sacred
Erichthonian serpent, which, as Herodotus tells us, ceased to eat the
honey cake before the battle of Salami's.

The porticoes of the two larger temples had Ionic pillars of the
usual kind, but that of the sanctuary of Pandrosos, having no pedi-

Fic 131.

THE ERECHTHEIUM ON THE ACROI'OLIS RESTORED.

mcnt or roof above it, and being therefore light, was supported by six-
female figures (fig. 1 32). These arc simply called Kupai in the very
interesting fragment of a bill discovered in Athens,3 containing the
names of artists employed on the frieze of the Ercchtheium, and the
prices charged for their work. They are, however, generally, though less
correctly, known by the name of Caryatids.* It is just this smaller

1 Vid. Soph. LEd. Col. 700, and .ILscliyl. * For controversy on this building conf.

Suppl. 214. Thiersch, Epikrisis dcr ncucslat Unlasuiii.

* 1'ausan. i. 27. dtt BrtchtkatMt, Miinchcn, 1857; Botticher

3 Stephani, Anna!. d. ThsL 1S43. Tat: BtrichU titer die UtUtrsuch. an/ dcr Acro-

d'Agg. i. Nu. 2, ]>. 294. polis, Berlin, 1S62.