. The life of the Greeks and Romans. lled at present Hagios Elias). At a considerableheight there is a narrow plateau, to which there is only oneaccess, and over which the rock rises still a little higher. Onthis plateau modern travellers (first Hawkins) have discovereda stone house, fromwhich there is a splen-did view over the seaand the island (seeFig. 4). Accordingto the measurement ofUlrich, it forms anoblong from west toeast of forty feet inouter length, bytwenty-four in width. The walls, four feet deep and formedof irregular pieces of slate, rise to seven feet in the interior. Inthe sout
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. lled at present Hagios Elias). At a considerableheight there is a narrow plateau, to which there is only oneaccess, and over which the rock rises still a little higher. Onthis plateau modern travellers (first Hawkins) have discovereda stone house, fromwhich there is a splen-did view over the seaand the island (seeFig. 4). Accordingto the measurement ofUlrich, it forms anoblong from west toeast of forty feet inouter length, bytwenty-four in width. The walls, four feet deep and formedof irregular pieces of slate, rise to seven feet in the interior. Inthe southern wall there is a gate covered with a slab thirteen feetlong by one and a half feet thick, and two small windows whichremind one of the gates in old Kyklopic or Pelasgic walls(see § 18). The roof of this house consists of hewn stone slabs,which, resting on the thickness of the wall, are pushed one overthe other towards the inside—a mode of covering which has alsobeen used in the buildings of the earliest period of Greek archi-. Fig. 4. 6 TEMPLE ON MOUNT OCHA. tecture, as, for instance, in the treasure-houses of the old royalpalaces. It ought also to be noticed, that in the middle of theroof there has been left an opening nineteen feet long by one and a half wide, thefirst beginning of the hy-pcethral formation (see plan,Fig. 5, and interior, ). In the interior thereprotrudes from the westernwall a stone, which mostlikely was destined for thereception of the idol or ofother holy objects. In thetemples of later periods theholy statues also stood gene-rally nearest to the westernwall, looking to the east,Hp where the entrance usuallywas. That this is not thecase here is explained bythe situation of the holyedifice, for close to theeastern wall the rock fallsFlg 6* steep into the sea. For this reason the gate could be placed only on the southern side, up towhich winds the rocky path which forms the only approach. To thewest of the temple there are remnants of a wall whic
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