At a depth of 5 meters (16¼ feet), I found to-day a very pretty jar with three feet, which is evidently intended to represent a woman, probably the Ilian Athena, for it has two breasts and a navel.
The snakes seem to have been enticed out of their winter quarters by the warm weather which has set in; for it is ten days since I have seen any.
Amid all the fatigues and troubles of the excavations there is this among other pleasures, that time never hangs heavy on one’s hands.