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 THESEUM, ERECHTHEUM, AND OTHER WORKS. 171 roll. The master actually in charge was Archilocos, called the architect. He was paid thirty-six drachmas for as many days, while the clerk received thirty drachmas. A drachma a day seems to have been common wages. Sawyers and carpenters appear in the accounts as getting as much. Choisy interprets these facts by saying that the works were under the direction of an architect [Philocles], and an assistant architect [Archilocos], and that the latter was paid a drachma for a daily survey. I do not think that this explanation can be bettered, except that I suppose the assistant architect was present all the time. The contract for Lebadea, also edited by Choisy, provides that the laying of the stones should be approved by the architect, and all the joints and beds should be tested in oil (red dressing) in the presence of the assistant architect. If an otherwise unknown architect, Philocles, was in charge in 408, we need not suppose that he was the original architect when it was begun, many — possibly twenty or twenty-five — years before. As Pausanias tells us that Kallimachos, who was especially celebrated for his delicate mode of workmanship, wrought the bronze palm-tree, which is spoken of together with the great lamp of the interior, Furtwangler has suggested that he was probably the designer of this remarkable building and the sculptor of the maidens, which we know were in place before 408. Petersen gives reasons for thinking that the bronze " palm-tree " was not a mere column-like chimney to the lamp, but that it actually resembled a palm-tree rising from the floor to the ceiling. Bass^ and Rhamnus. The temple of Apollo at Bassse, near Phigalia, was discovered by M. Bocher, a French architect working at Zante in 1765, while he was on his way to another site. It stands high in noble, mountainous, wooded country, not far from the sea. It was visited by R. Smirke about 1803, who made two excellent drawings, one of which is at the British Museum, and the other at the Institute of Architects. In 181 2 it was excavated by Cockerell and others, and its sculptures and representative details of its architecture were obtained for the British Museum.