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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oilier, does his Plan of this building correspond with the description of the
Aphesis in Pausauias. How far it corresponds with my Plan must be the
next step ill this investigation.

In instituting a comparison between his Plan and my own, the readers
will, indeed, perceive a general resemblance, but they will find them
materially to differ in the subdivisions. In both, this building- is represented
as consisting of two stories : the upper one is the octagon, which he supposes
to be the seat of the judges of the Games ; the lower one, forming in fact
the foundation of the edifice, is what he has converted into the Aphesis.—
The angle which he supposes to be the embolon or beak, appears alike in
both, as also the cell which lie conceives to have been destined to receive
the chariot of the conqueror, but which seems little calculated for that
purpose. It is 8 feet 8 inches by 5 feet; closed in on all sides; arched at
the top; and lighted by an aperture in the arch. 12 inches in diameter;
at the springings of the arch are four small holes, To enter into any
inquiry as to the object for which this cell was built, is not necessary to
my purpose: it mast be sulliciently evident that it never was intended for
the chariot of the conqueror.

On the other side of the angle, Mr. Allasou has marked by a dotted
line a wall which hi' supposes to have existed, and to have supported an
arch: thus would be formed another ceil 4 feet 8 inches in width, and
corresponding in situation with that which the Count de Choiseul has
described as the smaller Mall, and imagined to have been used only in the