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168 columns. A few yards further to the S.W. are two drums of Doric columns 2 feet 9 inches in diameter, and apparently in their original position. They are of travertine which has been covered with stucco. The intercolumniation is 6 feet 3 inches. There are several more of these lying in the same hue along a ridge which continues for 31 yards from N. to S. and marks the line of these columns.

To the W.N.W. of these remains is an artificial hollow with a terrace running round, which appears to be a stadium. The direction of this stadium is from N.N.B. by E. to S.S.W. by W. At the southern end it is curved, the other end being open.

Immediately to the north of the stadium is a ruined house with a well, at the side of which is a block of blue marble, 1 foot 7 inches wide by 1 foot 10 inches by 1 foot, on which is an inscription re- cording that the demos of the Lindopolitæ and the phratria of the Druitæ had rewarded with a golden crown Eualkidas, son of Antilochos, in the priesthood of Antilochos.$74$

This block had been converted into a drinking-trough.

To the N.N.W. of the stadium is a platform levelled and cut into steps, and in the boundary- wall of a vineyard is the drum of a travertine column, about 5 feet 10 inches in diameter.

Biliotti thinks that this is in position, and remembers large Hellenic blocks on which it rests, and which are now covered with earth. It would seem from the form of the ground that the vineyard occupies the site of a temple about 59 paces long by