1952–April 1953

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… the completion of the program. Try something like "the construction/laying/completion of the pavement, that reaching to the Paphos Gate, was constructed. P.3, L.7: Paphos Gate is as much our name as West Propylon is, but the inscription gives good warrant for it. I should call it PG on the plan now that we know - or think we do - just where the main gate was. Is Apollo Caesar named on both inscriptions or only on the first one? I don't recall. It would be well to be a little cautious here. Since worship of the Emperor was common east of Italy, Ap.Hy. may have received the additional epithet some time before 100, and a good long time before the west half of 'Temple A' was built. (It would not be surprising if there was an Apollo Caesar in the reign of Nero, who was a poet and a singer!) L.14-16: Ought not the fact that the west half is later than the eastern to be stated, rather than just implied? The plan fig.2 shows no difference between the two parts, except by omitting it. (The doorway exists, of course.) Is there any evidence of the western section. As you know, I have been hoping that you would find somewhere in the Eastern half of a form analogous to this. So far, we have called it Temple A because of its unlikeness to the temples we know and in spite of the fact that it is later than Temple B, which has the highest point in the sanctuary in spite of its position at the fact that it was a house: at least it never occurred to me that it was, and there is nothing in the plan to suggest it. L.19-22: This floor is not that of a house; at least it never occurred to me that it was, and there is nothing in the plan to suggest it. Though I fear that I suggested, and once almost believed, that there might be a connection between the five names on the ring and the five halls of the South Building, I certainly no longer think so. The ring is much older than the building, and there is no place in it, with its multitude of doors, for the treasure chest that had the marble cover lifted by the ring. When I last examined the ring - while John and Sue were still with us, I think - I seem to recall having some doubt about the reading and the interpretation. However that may be, it is not advisable now to connect it with the five chambers even conjecturally. L.27: Better: 'immediately to the east of the court'; rather it encloses or is built against/ L.28: It doesn't 'consist' of the court. As the plan stands better be assumed not to belong to the sentence. If 'consists' is kept, you'll have to get the rooms on the three sides into the sentence. P.4, Ll.1-2: Try 'Square piers with engaged half-columns on two adjacent faces' (not that I like this much, now that I have suggested it, but I think 'square' better be specified. Here's a good place to give the height ( ) of this since it is known exactly). 'One of them being preserved to its full height' is not quite justified as the characteristic of this approach. I have seen no evidence of pavement below (8 ft) the broad stairway, though as likely as not the whole broad way may have been paved once. ??' One entered the court from the north through a porch at the foot of the great stairway leading up to the Sanctuary'. The doorway itself can be taken for granted, if it appears on the plan - as it does. L.5 &c: would it not be well to refer in a phrase to the remains not now. L.5 &c: would it not be well to refer in a phrase to the remains on the east and south sides of the court and then turn to the relatively well preserved western rooms? L.6: This room is not just one of two important ones: it is the most important one. Witness its threshold higher than the others, its more ornate door-frame, the niches with statuary, the columns spaced so as to bring an intercolumniation in its axis. Its share of the portico paved with stone, columns basis inside; only its basis is preserved to too great height to allow it to have been L.7-8: Is the basis preserved to too great height to allow it to have been incorporated as part of a bench round three sides of the room? (Of course later than the bench/platform in the next room). L.12: What is meant by 'Middle Empire'? If the reader looks in a dictionary he will find it = the Middle Kingdom of Egypt.