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Rh 10 inches. This place is called Marmaroulia. On our way we examined a hill called Agios Phokas, which is covered with brushwood. Ascending this hill, I found it fortified by a wall of polygonal masonry, within which were the foundations of an oblong cella or temple, 39 feet by 18 feet 8 inches. At the south end of this enclosure, a female statue lay as it had fallen, by the side of its base: it has been about 10 feet high, and is sculptured in white marble. The figure is draped to the feet. The sculpture is in a good style, but too much destroyed to be worth removing: the arms are wanting, and the body is in two pieces. Several smaller fragments of scidpture were lying about. The base is 4 feet 2 inches by 3 feet 7 inches. In the northern part of the enclosure was a large block 6 feet 3 inches long, and 2 feet $1⁄2$ inch wide, lying parallel with the end walls. It has at one end oblong holes for clamps.

On the W. side of the hill the wall of the Acropolis is an exceedingly fine specimen of polygonal masonry, extending in length 100 feet: the present height is 8 feet 9 inches. The largest of the blocks in this wall measured 4 feet 7 inches by 4 feet 1 inch.

On examining the masonry, I noticed that on several of the largest blocks the face of the stone had been hatched Math lines forming bands of lozenges, chevrons, and other patterns, in which were plain traces of red colour.$89$

These ornaments were very similar to those which occur on the archaic Greek fictile ware, fragments of which have been found at Mycenæ and Tiryns,