Page:On two Greek inscriptions, from Kamiros and Ialysos, in Rhodes, respectively (1878).djvu/15

Rh Biliotti in the course of excavations a little to the east of the hill now called Phileremo and on which must have stood the Akropolis of lalysos.

If, as I suppose, this Akropolis was the Achaia of the early legends, from which the Phœnicians were expelled by the Greeks, the place where the stelè was found might well be the 🇬🇷 where one of the stelæ was to be set up, for here the ground slopes gradually from Phileremo to the plain below.

Mr. Biliotti states that the stelè when found was standing upright in its original socket, about six feet below the surface of the ground, but that no trace of foundations could be found near it. It may be that the spot where the stelè was standing was its original site on the road leading from the Akropolis to the plain below.

P.S. Since I wrote the above, my colleague, Mr. Percy Gardiner, has pointed out to me, on small gold and copper coins of Rhodes, dating from the third century, B.C., a head which is probably intended for that of Alectrona. This head is radiate, but distinctly female in type, and bearing the female adornments of Stephane and earrings. Its solar character would better suit Alectrona than the sea-nymph Rhodos. The coin is figured in the Hunter Catalogue, PL xlv. 15.; Mionnet Suppl. vol. vi. PI. viii. 4.