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 DELPHI taken up by a paved space, surrounded by a narrow gangway ; and on this it is supposed that the famous yepavos or stork-dance took place. The most remarkable architectural feature of the building is the partition that separated the altar from this long gallery; it consists of two columns between antes, with capitals of a very peculiar form, consisting of the fore parts of bulls set back to back 3 from these the whole building is sometimes called the sanctuary of the bulls. Beyond it, on the east, was a sacred wood filling the space up to the wall of the precinct; and at the south end of this was a small open space with the altar of Zeus Polieus. At the north of the precinct was a broad road, flanked with votive offerings and exedree, and along the boundary were porticoes and chambers intended for the reception of the Oewpiou or sacred embassies; there are two entrances on this side, each of them through extensive propylsea. At the north-west corner of the precinct is a building of limestone, the Trojptvos oikos often mentioned in the inventories of the treasures of the Delian shrine.. South of it is the precinct of Artemis, containing within it the old temple of the goddess; her more recent temple was to the south of her precinct, opening not into it but into the open space entered through the southern propylsea of the precinct of Apollo. The older temple is mentioned in some of the inventories as “ the temple in which were the seven statues ” 3 and close beside it was found a series of archaic draped female statues, which was the most important of its kind until the discovery of the finer and better preserved set from the Athenian Acropolis. Within the precinct there were found many statues and other works of art, and a very large number of inscriptions, some of them giving inventories of the votive offerings and accounts of the administration of the temple and its property. The latter are of considerable interest, and give full information as to the sources of the revenue and its financial administration. Outside the precinct of Apollo, on the south, was an open place 3 between this and the precinct was a house for the priests, and within it, in a kind of court, a set of small structures that may perhaps be identified as the tombs of the Hyperborean maidens. Just to the east was the temple of Dionysus, which is of peculiar plan, and faces the open place 3 on the other side of it is a large rectangular court, surrounded by colonnades and chambers which served as offices, the whole forming a sort of commercial exchange 3 in the middle of it was a temple dedicated to Aphrodite and Hermes. To the north of the precinct of Apollo, between it and the sacred lake, there are very extensive ruins of _ the commercial town of Delos 3 these have been only partially cleared, but have yielded a good many inscriptions and other antiquities. The most extensive building is a very large court surrounded by chambers, a sort of club or exchange. Beyond this, on the way to the east coast, are the remains of the new and the old palaestra, also partially excavated. The shore of the channel facing Rhenea is lined with docks and warehouses, and behind them, as well as elsewhere in the island, there have been found several private houses of the 2nd or 3rd century B.c. Each of these consists of a single court surrounded by columns and often paved with mosaic 3 various chambers open out of the court, including usually one of large proportions, the avSpwv or dining-room for guests. The theatre, which is set in the lower slope of Mount Cynthus, has the wings of the auditorium supported by massive substructures. The most interesting feature is the scena, which is unique in plan 3 it consisted of an oblong building of two storeys, surrounded on all sides by a low

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portico or terrace reaching to the level of the first floor. This was supported by pillars, set closer together along the front than at the sides and back. An inscription found in the theatre showed that this portico, or at least the front portion of it, was called the proscenium or logeum, two terms of which the identity was previously disputed. On the summit of Mount Cynthus, above the primitive cave-temple which has always been visible, there have been found the remains of a small precinct dedicated to Zeus Cynthius and Athena Cynthia. Some way down the slope of the hill, between the cave-temple and the ravine of the Inopus, is a terrace with the temples of the foreign gods, Isis and Serapis, and a small odeum. Numerous articles in the Bulletin de Correspondence Helttnique record the various discoveries at Delos as they -were made. See also Th. Homolle, Les archives de Vintendance sacree a Delos (with plan). The best consecutive account is given in the Guide Joanne, Grece, vol. ii. p. 443-464. For works of art found at Delos see Auch^ology. See also Greece, Ionian Islands. (e. gr.) Delphi.—The site of Delphi was bought by the French Government in 1891, and the peasant proprietors expropriated and transferred to the new village of Castri, a little farther to the west. Work began in the spring of 1892, and the site was rapidly cleared of earth by means of a light railway. The plan of the precinct is now easily traced, and with the help of Pausanias many of the buildings have been identified. The ancient wall running east and west, commonly known as the Hellenico, has been found extant in its whole length, and the two boundary walls running up the hill at each end of it, traced. In the eastern of these was the main entrance by which Pausanias went in along the Sacred Way. This paved road is easily recognized as it zigzags up the hill, with treasuries and the bases of various offerings facing it on both sides. It mounts first westwards to an open space, then turns eastwards till it reaches the eastern end of the terrace wall that supports the temple, and then turns again and curves up north and then west towards the temple. Above this, approached by a stair, are the Lesche and the theatre, occupying respectively the north-east and north-west corner of the precinct. On a higher level still, a little to the west, is the stadium. There are several narrow paths and stairs that cut off the zigzags of the Sacred Way. In describing the monuments discovered by the French excavators, the simplest plan is to follow the route of Pausanias. Outside the entrance is a large paved court of Roman date, flanked by a colonnade. On the north side of the Sacred Way, close to the main entrance, stood the offering dedicated by the Lacedaemonians after the battle of vEgospotami. It was a large quadrangular building of conglomerate, with a back wall faced with stucco, and stood open to the road. On a stepped pedestal facing the open stood the statues of the gods and the admirals, perhaps in rows above one another. The statues of the Epigoni stood on a semicircular basis on the south side of the way. Opposite them stood another semicircular basis which carried the statues of the Argive kings, whose names are cut on the pedestal in archaistic characters, reading from right to left. Farther west was the Sicyonian treasury on the south of the way. It was in the form of a distyle Doric temple m antis, and had its entrance on the east. The present foundations are built of architectural fragments, probably from an earlier building of circular form on the same site. The sculptures from this treasury are in the museum, as are the other sculptures found on the site. These sculptmes, which are in rough limestone, most likely belong to the earlier building, as their surface is in a better state of