Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 1) (London, 1892)

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the Greeks to Naucratis, no Hellenic remains on the site
can be older than 564 b.C. If an earlier settlement is
assumed, it may have dated from the middle of the seventh
ci ntury.

In either case the temple of the Milesian Apollo would
have been among the earliest buildings erected. Hero-
dotus states that by permission of Amasis, the Milesians
independently founded a temenos of Apollo (x<*>pis Se...
eV ioivrwv iSpvaavTo Te/xeyos. . . MtXiytrtoi'AttoXXwvo^. Messrs.
Petrie and Gardner, arguing for the older date, put the
foundation shortly after the middle of the seventh
century.

The architectural remains are very scanty. Probably
much of the first temple was built of mud bricks. The
stone portions may have been used again in the building
of the second temple, whose ornaments were of marble.
Moreover, all marb1^ and stone is eagerly sought for and
removed by the modern Arab diggers.

Naukratis, Part I., 1884-5, by W. M. Flinders Petrie and others ;
Naukratis, Part II., 1885-6, by E. A. Gardner; G. Hirschfeld in
Rhein. Mus., N.F., XLIL (1887), p. 209, and XLIV. (1889),
p. 461; Kirchhoff, Studies, 4th edit. p. 43; Roberts, Greek
Epii/raphy, p. 323.

The First Temple of Apollo.

100. Columns.—The architectural members of the first tenrple
were of limestone. They are insufficient to fix the dimen-
sions of the temple, which was, however, small. Mr. Petrie
supposes it to have been not more than twenty-five feet
broad. A volute and a complete base of an Ionic column
were discovered, but were immediately destroyed by
Arabs. The following fragments are preserved:—

1, 2. Two members of an Ionic capital, consisting of two
courses of an egg and dart moulding. The upper
course is considerably the larger. The lower course is