The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art . In the British Museum. From Mioniiet. * Addlt. MS. 8636, plut. 121 H. fol. 12; and MS. Bill. Vat. vi, 286. t Bond., Corn., Creta Sacra, i, 9. X And five miles south oi Arcadi, on the summit of a lofty hill. {Id. i, 310.) THE ANTIQUITIES OF CANDIA. NO. I. 293 [Famous for its numerous and beautiful silver coins, one of which we haveselected for illustration. PSYKION. Considerable remains of this city are reported to exist at Kastri.^ RHITNYMA. (See Belli, in the next number).] CORION. The lake Corion, Kuiiia^ is the
The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art . In the British Museum. From Mioniiet. * Addlt. MS. 8636, plut. 121 H. fol. 12; and MS. Bill. Vat. vi, 286. t Bond., Corn., Creta Sacra, i, 9. X And five miles south oi Arcadi, on the summit of a lofty hill. {Id. i, 310.) THE ANTIQUITIES OF CANDIA. NO. I. 293 [Famous for its numerous and beautiful silver coins, one of which we haveselected for illustration. PSYKION. Considerable remains of this city are reported to exist at Kastri.^ RHITNYMA. (See Belli, in the next number).] CORION. The lake Corion, Kuiiia^ is the only one m the island. Therewas a temple to Athene on its bank.*!* From Goltzius. At the fine modern city of Polls, in the district of Rettimo,are the lofty walls of the ancient city of Lainpe or Lappa,built by Agamemnon. This was the celebrated studio of theCretans. The modern city has taken the name of Polls, inremembrance of the famous one whose site it occupies. Thewalls are more than five miles in circumference, and containwithin them stupendous ruins of temples and other fabrics,chiefly of brick, large cisterns,:|: aqueducts, numerous columns,capitals and bases, and many statues.§ Gold and silver coins ofgreat beauty are brought to light, as well as numerous muti-lated inscriptions. Below the city, on the western side, several * Pashley, i, 303. f Steph. Byz. I One of these, described by Bondelmonte as a fountain, measures 40 by 20feet, and has an inscription. (Corn., Creta Sacra, i, 16.) § Pashley noticed considerable remains of a massive brick edifice, with but-tresses 15 feet wide, and of 9 feet projection; a circular building, 60 feet dia
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