Stanhope, John Spencer: Olympia or topography illustrative of the actual state of the plain of Olympia and of the ruins of the city of Elis (London, 1824)

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"In the open pail of theAphesis of the horses, nearly about the centre,
are altars to the equestrian Neptune and the equestrian Juno,, and in
advance before the column, another to the Dioscnri. Ai the entrance, in
front of thai pari called the embolon, there is on one side an altar to the
equestrian Mars, and opposite, another to the equestriau Minerva. On
entering the embolon itself, those of Good Fortune, Pan. and Vemis;
and in the innermost pari of the embolon, one lo the nymphs railed
Acmense."

Thus, in addition to that of unburn! brick, we have three altars aud a
column in the open part of the Aphesis, two in fronl of the entrance of the
embolon, and lour more within it.

Why did the Count de Choiseul, when giving a p|ail 0f t]le

Hippodrome restored, including the Aphesis, not assign to each of these
altars their respective position? For an obvious reason, because lie had no
room for them : but such a reason, however it might extricate him from his
drutcuities, can never prove satisfactory to those who are at the pains of
dispassionately examining the question; and they must be led to this
conclusion, that neither in these points, nor, I may almost add, in any