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 172 THESEUM, ERECHTHEUM, AND OTHER WORKS. The ruins have recently been again explored by Cavvadias, and partially restored — I hope in the good sense of that most distorted word. The temple was described by Pausanias, who says that it was the fairest temple in the Peloponnesos excepting that at Tegea, that the architect was Ictinus, and that the roof was of marble. Contrary to custom, this temple stood north and south, but a chamber at the south end, the adytum, had a separate door facing the east. Along the interior of the larger cella were attached Ionic columns, reducing the clear space to about 14 ft. 6 in., and above them ran a sculptured frieze. As a t o g o IP 20 30 i° peet Fig. 170. — The Temple at Basste. matter of planning it would seem that this reduction of the space was either a provision for a roof of stone or else that the midde part was left entirely open, the recesses between the attached columns only being sheltered. Points in favour of this latter solution are that no fragments of a cella roof have been found, although parts of the covering of the recesses have been ; that the central area was sunk a step from the rest of the floors ; that the sculptured frieze seems more explicable on this supposition ; that there was a separate sanctuary for the image, which, of course, was covered ; and, finally, the analogy with another Apollo temple at Miletus, where the cella was open, with attached Ionic pilasters around the walls. This question of the roof has been much argued over.