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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.4266#0164
DESCRIPTION
A NEWLY DISCOVERED
TEMPLE AT CADACHIO,
ISLAND OF CORFU.
The measurements and drawings of this interesting temple were taken at Corfu, in the spring of the
year 1825, while waiting for an opportunity of proceeding to Greece on a professional tour. The
engineers were then engaged in excavating the temple at Cadachio, which had, since its discovery in
the year 1822, been again buried by the action of the springs from Mount Ascension.
Returning to England at the close of the year 1827, and finding that no detailed drawings had
hitherto been given of it, the present plates have been submitted to the public, and it is trusted they
will not be found uninteresting.
The discovery of this temple was owing to the following circumstance ; the springs of Cada-
chio, which supply our navy with water, being unusually low in the autumn of 1822, the engineers
under the command of Colonel Whitmore were employed to ascertain the cause. While digging, a
Doric column being discovered in situ, led to a farther excavation which brought to light the ground
plan of the temple. The columns of the west, or the land side, were in their places ; as were also five
on the south, and two on the north side, but in a very mutilated state. The walls of the cella, with
the exception of two courses, have been removed ; in the interior there are some curious remains of
an altar, the rest of the building has, together with the cliff, fallen into the sea.
The following is an extract from Colonel Whitmore's account of the ruins, who was the com-
manding officer of engineers on the station at the time of the discovery :—
" The excavation has further brought to light several female heads and a small leg in terra-
cotta, which might have been either votive offerings or portions of the jointed toys, not unfrequent in
the tombs of children ; there have been also found earthen cones, the foot of a statue, unguentaries and
libatories, and brazen patera;, scarabm, glass beads, ivory, copper, iron and lead, a bronze four-
spoked wheel (which was the emblem of Nemesis), weights, the heads of arrows, pieces of ear-rings,
and a number of coins of Epirus, Apollonia, Corinth, Syracuse, and Corcyra. The cones are supposed
A NEWLY DISCOVERED
TEMPLE AT CADACHIO,
ISLAND OF CORFU.
The measurements and drawings of this interesting temple were taken at Corfu, in the spring of the
year 1825, while waiting for an opportunity of proceeding to Greece on a professional tour. The
engineers were then engaged in excavating the temple at Cadachio, which had, since its discovery in
the year 1822, been again buried by the action of the springs from Mount Ascension.
Returning to England at the close of the year 1827, and finding that no detailed drawings had
hitherto been given of it, the present plates have been submitted to the public, and it is trusted they
will not be found uninteresting.
The discovery of this temple was owing to the following circumstance ; the springs of Cada-
chio, which supply our navy with water, being unusually low in the autumn of 1822, the engineers
under the command of Colonel Whitmore were employed to ascertain the cause. While digging, a
Doric column being discovered in situ, led to a farther excavation which brought to light the ground
plan of the temple. The columns of the west, or the land side, were in their places ; as were also five
on the south, and two on the north side, but in a very mutilated state. The walls of the cella, with
the exception of two courses, have been removed ; in the interior there are some curious remains of
an altar, the rest of the building has, together with the cliff, fallen into the sea.
The following is an extract from Colonel Whitmore's account of the ruins, who was the com-
manding officer of engineers on the station at the time of the discovery :—
" The excavation has further brought to light several female heads and a small leg in terra-
cotta, which might have been either votive offerings or portions of the jointed toys, not unfrequent in
the tombs of children ; there have been also found earthen cones, the foot of a statue, unguentaries and
libatories, and brazen patera;, scarabm, glass beads, ivory, copper, iron and lead, a bronze four-
spoked wheel (which was the emblem of Nemesis), weights, the heads of arrows, pieces of ear-rings,
and a number of coins of Epirus, Apollonia, Corinth, Syracuse, and Corcyra. The cones are supposed