Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . om its site. (Mure, Tou7 in Greece, vol. ii. ) A spring rises about 10 minutes SW. of thetemple, and soon afterwards loses itself in the ground,as has described. North of the templewas the highest summit of the mountain, which onereaches in 10 minutes time by a broad road con-structed by the Greeks. This sumndt was calledCotilum (KtoTtAov), whence the whole mountain de-riveil filename of Cotilian; here was a sanctuaryof Aphrodite, of which there are still some grandem- of the ruins of the temple have givento the whole of the
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . om its site. (Mure, Tou7 in Greece, vol. ii. ) A spring rises about 10 minutes SW. of thetemple, and soon afterwards loses itself in the ground,as has described. North of the templewas the highest summit of the mountain, which onereaches in 10 minutes time by a broad road con-structed by the Greeks. This sumndt was calledCotilum (KtoTtAov), whence the whole mountain de-riveil filename of Cotilian; here was a sanctuaryof Aphrodite, of which there are still some grandem- of the ruins of the temple have givento the whole of the surrounding district the name ofthe Columns {cttovs crrvKovs or KoXdwais). Thetemple is at least two hours and a half from theruins of the city, and consequently more than the40 stadia, which Pausanias mentions as the distancefrom Phigalia to Cotilium; but this distance per-haps applies to the nearest part of the mountainfrom the city. In modern times the temple remained long unknown,except to the shepherds of the country. Cliandler, in. GROUND TLAN OF THE TEMPI-E OF APOLLO AT BASSAE. PHIGAJIUS 1765, was the first who gave any account of it; itwas subsequently visited and described by Gell,Dodwell, and others; and in 1812 the whole templewas very carefully examined by a body of artistsand scholars, who cleared away the ruins of thecella, and thus became acquainted with the exactform of the interior of the i)uilding. The results ofthese labouis are given by Staekelberg, Der Apollo-tempel zu Baisd in A7-kadien, ^um. 1826. Thetemple was a peripteral building of the Doric stone of which it is built is a hard yellowish-brown limestone, susceptible of a high polish. Itfaces nearly north and south, was originally about125 feet in length and 48 in breadth, and had 15colunms on either side, and 6 on either front. Therewere also 2 columns in the pronaos and 2 in the pos-ticum; so that the total number in the peristyle was42, of which 36 are standing. The cella was toonarrow to
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