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Rh Below, in smaller characters, is the name of the sculptor, Theon of Antioch, by whom the object dedicated was made. The mention of Antioch proves that this inscription is of a date subsequent to Alexander the Great.

In the same coixrtyard is a pedestal of blue mar- ble, 3 feet 9 inches by 2 feet by 2 feet 6 inches, with holes at the top for the feet of a statue. This is inscribed with the name Antisthenes, son of Architimos, priest of the Sun ; below is the name of the sculptor, Onasiphron, son of Kleonaios, of Salamis.$75$ In this field is a raised platform, about 63 paces long by 21 wide, on which a temple may have stood.

In an adjacent vineyard are many squared blocks built into the walls.

To the S.W. of St. Stephen's hill a platform ex- tends along the shore, from the point where I noticed the angle made by the wall along the edge of the cliff. This platform is rather higher than St. Stephen's hill. On its W. and S. edge is a ridge, on the surface of which lie at intervals loose square blocks of no great size. This ridge, which follows the outline of the hill, marks the line of a waU for the defence of the platform ; but from the small size of the blocks it may be infen'ed that this wall was not part of the main fortifications of the Acropolis. From the evidence of an inscription relating to Zeus Atabyrios found here, Ross and M. Guérin identify this platform as the hill which Arrian (Mithradat. c. 2G) describes as easily scaled, and as having on the summit a temple of that Deity surrounded by a low wall. It was this hill that