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ARCHITECTURE OF THE ARGIVE HERAEUM
The central room on the plan (Plate XXVIII.) is where the fire was probahly made,
as it is supplied with what appears to be a smoke-flue, and there are vestiges of burnt
matter.
Many of the rooms have floors of plaster, which is spread directly on the earth with
rounded plaster-angles between floors and walls, indicating that the walls were also plas-
tered. Some of these compartments may have been used as reservoirs and others as
plunge-baths. The sketch-restoration (Fig. 69) is merely a suggestion and makes no
claim to accuracy. In the plan I have assumed that the purpose of the various rooms
may have been as follows : —
A. Atrium.
B. Room for Attendant.
C, M, and N, and possibly E. Warmed rooms.
D, G, J. Passages.
F. Kitchen and Furnace-room.
K. Sleeping chamber.
L. Anteroom.
O. Cisterns or tanks for swimming.
LOWER STOA.
South of the Roman Building are the remains of an L-shaped building (X), one leg
measuring- over all 74.33 m. and the other about 52 m. in leno'th. At the extreme
southern end a retaining wall was built which was continued beyond the line of the
building, and it may have been the original intention to carry the building around one
or both of the two open sides. It may have formed a court for herding cattle before
the sacrifice.
The remains are insufficient to justify an attempt at restoration. The outer walls are
too narrow for column foundations, and indicate that the building was inclosed with a
central row of columns to support the roof. See the plan of site restored, Plate V.
CISTERNS.
Several cisterns or baths are shown on the general plan, Plate IV. : A, west of the
Old Temple; B, C, D, in the Upper Stoa (II); E, E<7, east of the Lower Stoa. This
last is underground and cross-shaped. F, a small bath south of E; in this chamber a
strigil was found. There were several drains. The one dotted on the plan between the
Upper Stoa and the Temple was constructed of tile pipe, a detail of which is given on
Plate XXIX., Y. The underground aqueducts south of the site have been referred to
by Dr. Waldstein (above, p. 16).
ARCHITECTURE OF THE ARGIVE HERAEUM
The central room on the plan (Plate XXVIII.) is where the fire was probahly made,
as it is supplied with what appears to be a smoke-flue, and there are vestiges of burnt
matter.
Many of the rooms have floors of plaster, which is spread directly on the earth with
rounded plaster-angles between floors and walls, indicating that the walls were also plas-
tered. Some of these compartments may have been used as reservoirs and others as
plunge-baths. The sketch-restoration (Fig. 69) is merely a suggestion and makes no
claim to accuracy. In the plan I have assumed that the purpose of the various rooms
may have been as follows : —
A. Atrium.
B. Room for Attendant.
C, M, and N, and possibly E. Warmed rooms.
D, G, J. Passages.
F. Kitchen and Furnace-room.
K. Sleeping chamber.
L. Anteroom.
O. Cisterns or tanks for swimming.
LOWER STOA.
South of the Roman Building are the remains of an L-shaped building (X), one leg
measuring- over all 74.33 m. and the other about 52 m. in leno'th. At the extreme
southern end a retaining wall was built which was continued beyond the line of the
building, and it may have been the original intention to carry the building around one
or both of the two open sides. It may have formed a court for herding cattle before
the sacrifice.
The remains are insufficient to justify an attempt at restoration. The outer walls are
too narrow for column foundations, and indicate that the building was inclosed with a
central row of columns to support the roof. See the plan of site restored, Plate V.
CISTERNS.
Several cisterns or baths are shown on the general plan, Plate IV. : A, west of the
Old Temple; B, C, D, in the Upper Stoa (II); E, E<7, east of the Lower Stoa. This
last is underground and cross-shaped. F, a small bath south of E; in this chamber a
strigil was found. There were several drains. The one dotted on the plan between the
Upper Stoa and the Temple was constructed of tile pipe, a detail of which is given on
Plate XXIX., Y. The underground aqueducts south of the site have been referred to
by Dr. Waldstein (above, p. 16).