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GENERAL .INTRODUCTION
SITE OFT1E 11EBJEI733
near
by James Robertson Esq.
on the Staff of
Major General Gordon
CoT>c;iondcr of the Greek Forces
ui Tcloponncsus JS3fi
Fig. 33. — General Gordon's Plan of the Site of the Heraeum.
From Leake's Peloponnesiaca, 184G.
ported by a terrace in masonry, above which, at the base of the peak, is an upper terrace and a
quadrangular platform. The walls of the lower terrace are generally of an inferior kind of regular
masonry; but an angle towards Nauplia [probably XI on the Plan (Fig. 2), and the wall to the
east of this] is of fine workmanship, and differs from all the remaining walls, in consisting of two
layers of large blocks, succeeded by a narrower course. The whole of this wall is pierced with
square holes, like those made for beams, very numerous, and extending over the whole surface.
Below this terrace I found part of the shaft of a Doric column, eleven feet six inches in circum-
ference, with twenty flutings. This column was of limestone, and covered with cement. The wall
of the upper terrace consists of blocks, heaped rudely together in a very rough Cyclopean style;
three layers of stone generally remain. One stone of a triangular form was twelve feet in the
sides, and four to five feet thick; another eighteen feet long and six feet thick; the breadth was
concealed by the earth. Below this terrace is another piece of a column, which seems not to have
belonged to the same edifice of which that before mentioned formed a part, being of a harder
limestone, roughly worked, unfluted, and 4 feet 1 inch in diameter at the only end I could mea-
sure.1 There are considerable quantities of pottery scattered about."
1 From the Old Temple.
GENERAL .INTRODUCTION
SITE OFT1E 11EBJEI733
near
by James Robertson Esq.
on the Staff of
Major General Gordon
CoT>c;iondcr of the Greek Forces
ui Tcloponncsus JS3fi
Fig. 33. — General Gordon's Plan of the Site of the Heraeum.
From Leake's Peloponnesiaca, 184G.
ported by a terrace in masonry, above which, at the base of the peak, is an upper terrace and a
quadrangular platform. The walls of the lower terrace are generally of an inferior kind of regular
masonry; but an angle towards Nauplia [probably XI on the Plan (Fig. 2), and the wall to the
east of this] is of fine workmanship, and differs from all the remaining walls, in consisting of two
layers of large blocks, succeeded by a narrower course. The whole of this wall is pierced with
square holes, like those made for beams, very numerous, and extending over the whole surface.
Below this terrace I found part of the shaft of a Doric column, eleven feet six inches in circum-
ference, with twenty flutings. This column was of limestone, and covered with cement. The wall
of the upper terrace consists of blocks, heaped rudely together in a very rough Cyclopean style;
three layers of stone generally remain. One stone of a triangular form was twelve feet in the
sides, and four to five feet thick; another eighteen feet long and six feet thick; the breadth was
concealed by the earth. Below this terrace is another piece of a column, which seems not to have
belonged to the same edifice of which that before mentioned formed a part, being of a harder
limestone, roughly worked, unfluted, and 4 feet 1 inch in diameter at the only end I could mea-
sure.1 There are considerable quantities of pottery scattered about."
1 From the Old Temple.