[Plate XVIII] represents the excavation at the end adjacent to the Hieron. Y in [Plate I] (shown also in [Plate XVIII]) is either the starting place or the goal. Z is a subterranean passage probably communicating with the precinct.
An inscription (found in 1896) mentioned by Mr. Frazer, shows that a hippodrome also existed at the Hieron.
On Mount Kynortion, some distance south of the great theatre, stood the temple of the Maleatean Apollo. The remains are so fragmentary that it is difficult to devise a conjectural restoration.
II. The Asklepieion at Athens
Before saying anything about the ritual and the treatment of the sick at the Hieron, it will be well to turn to the Asklepieion at Athens, and examine briefly the structural arrangements there. Situated on the south side of the Acropolis, at an elevation of perhaps eighty feet above the plain, adjoining on the east the theatre of Dionysus, the locality was probably as healthy as any the immediate neighbourhood of Athens could supply. The heat no doubt was great in summer, but we may conclude that a grove of large trees afforded grateful shade to the sick.
PLATE XIX—Portico of Eumenes and Acropolis
PLATE XX—Attempt at an Outline Restoration of the Asklepieion at Athens (R.C.)
