. Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu : handbook for travellers . ercules, thoughBenndorf assigns itto Apollo; some ofthe columns aremonoliths. Temple Dis not so ancient asTemple C; in frontof it is a somewhatelevated foundation-wallsof numerous otherbuildings are trace-able within the oldtown, and gravescontaining skeletonsand houses, of alater date, also chiselled onthe overthrown archi-traves indicate thatthese last were dwellings of the Christian period. — To the N. ofthe Acropolis the remains of the fortifications rest
. Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and Corfu : handbook for travellers . ercules, thoughBenndorf assigns itto Apollo; some ofthe columns aremonoliths. Temple Dis not so ancient asTemple C; in frontof it is a somewhatelevated foundation-wallsof numerous otherbuildings are trace-able within the oldtown, and gravescontaining skeletonsand houses, of alater date, also chiselled onthe overthrown archi-traves indicate thatthese last were dwellings of the Christian period. — To the N. ofthe Acropolis the remains of the fortifications restored by Hermo-crates in 407 have been exhumed, with two round bastionsat the E. and W. corners, a projecting semicircular tower (M; so-called Teatro), and a trench (Trincea h). Capitals and triglyphsfrom earlier edifices have been built into these. The passagesto Trench h are not vaulted but covered by the gradual pro-jection of the successive courses of masonry; while the archof the doorway e, in the N. wall of the Acropolis, is not builtbut hewn out of the stone. To the E. is a well of excellent. to Trapani. SELINUS. 26. Route. 323 water, enclosed by cylinders of clay. Three metopes (p. 299)were discovered near this point in 1892. Farther on lay the townproper, the remains of which are very scanty. — Still farther tothe N., on the ridge between the farms of Oalera and Bagliazzo,was a necropolis. Another necropolis lay to the W. of the Modione, near the housecalled Messana (formerly Gdggera), on the hill now called Mani-calunga. The Propylaea of the latter necropolis, from the beginningof the 4th cent., used also as a temple (probably of Hecate, tojudge from an inscription), were discovered by Cavallari just heyondthe river. Since 1891 Salinas and Patricolo have excavated asacred district behind this, with altars (the largest, 52 ft. in length,between the Propylaea and the temple), grave-steles, and, higherup, a temple without a peristyle, identified from an inscripti
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