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 before referred to under the Parthenon. An example of a memorial inscription written on such a shield may be seen in the Inscription Hall. Fellows illustrates a tower from a city

wall in Lycia with a similar shield upon it. Pausanias tells of a hall at Elis decorated with shields "not made for war."

With the tomb I must mention the statue of Demeter, also from Cnydos, one of the most delightful works in the Museum. Its style seems to me to be remarkably like that of the head of "Apollo" found at Delphi, of which there is a cast in the Louvre. Is it only a coincidence that it was found at the treasury of the Cnidians? The Demeter follows a traditional type, see Fig. 194, from ''Athen. Mitth.'', 1895, and with that compare a similar figure on the Harpy tomb, which by this analogy should also be Demeter.

The temple of Apollo Branchidae, near Miletus, was probably in its mass the greatest temple ever erected, but the temple of Samos may have been still larger in area. It is represented in the British Museum only by some archaic sculptures brought from its sacred way. Important fragments of this temple, however, form the greatest architectural possession of the Louvre, where are exhibited five or six large capitals from the pilasters of the open cella, parts of the frieze of griffins which ran between them, and some colossal highly ornamented, bases from the portico, of which the plinth blocks are about 9 ft, square. (Fig. 195.) The lowest diameter of the columns was 6 ft. 6 in., and their height was nearly 65 ft.

In the most recent work on this temple, MM. Pontremoli