. Greek athletic sports and festivals . either end by a pair of stone pillars between which lies a rowof stone slabs with parallel grooves and sockets precisely similarto those found at Olympia, save that there are only elevendivisions and that the parallel grooves are somewhat closer, ^ The stadium of Pergamum was, liowever, 210 m. according to Dorpfeld, thestandard settled by Philetaerus being higher than that on the mainland. xxxiii. .341. -^ Ilpa/crt/cd, 1902, pp. 78-92, PI. A-D ; Frazer, Pausanias, v. 576. XII THE STADIUM OF EPIDAURUS 255 about four inches apart. The fact that
. Greek athletic sports and festivals . either end by a pair of stone pillars between which lies a rowof stone slabs with parallel grooves and sockets precisely similarto those found at Olympia, save that there are only elevendivisions and that the parallel grooves are somewhat closer, ^ The stadium of Pergamum was, liowever, 210 m. according to Dorpfeld, thestandard settled by Philetaerus being higher than that on the mainland. xxxiii. .341. -^ Ilpa/crt/cd, 1902, pp. 78-92, PI. A-D ; Frazer, Pausanias, v. 576. XII THE STADIUM OF EPIDAURUS 255 about four inches apart. The fact that traces of lead werefound in some of the sockets confirms the view that iron postswere fastened in them. The pillars possibly belong to anearlier time than the slabs, when start and finish were stillmarked by lines drawn in the sand between the pillars. Thestone slabs seem to have been added in Macedonian times whenthe stadium was improved, and a record of this reconstructionis preserved in an inscription which states that one Philon of. Fig. 42.—The Stadium of Epidaurus, corner, sliowing tlie starting lines and rectangular end. (From a photograph by Mr. Eqiiery Walker.) Corinth having undertaken a contract for providing the startinglines (iWAaKa) and having failed to fulfil his contract withinthe specified time was condemned by the Agonothetes andHellanodicae to pay a fine of 500 drachmae.^ A still later,possibly Roman arrangement for the start is seen in five halfpillars placed at either end in front of the stone sill which theywere obviously intended to supersede (Fig. 42). On each side 1 Ditt. Syll^ ii. 688. 256 GREEK ATHLETIC SPORTS AND FESTIVALS chap. these pillars have a shallow groove intended apparently to holdsome form of barrier or starting gate, such as we find used in theRoman Circus.^ A further difficulty is caused by the remainsof four small stone platforms which stood immediately in frontof the stone sills, two at each end between the outside pillarsand th
Size: 1785px × 1400px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, books, booksubjectfastsandfeasts
