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Apollo, and if so, do you feel at all convinced that it is a temple? I can't say that I do. The underground sanctuary looks to me like a tomb (it is in a line with others) reused as a cistern. I wonder if the buildings above ground are our muchdesired palace. There is some extremely good masonry (good for Cyprus), and what little I can make of the plan seems not inconsistent with a palace. Christo says that a great many inscriptions, Greek & Cypriote, were found there.
In all events the region is almost untouched. Cesnola's other depredations are about comparable to those of Hassan Effendi on our hill, and no more thorough. He has cleared nothing, but has sunk shallow pits here and there, completely ignoring the greater part of
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