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—62 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.the Greeks toNaucratis, no Hellenic remains on the sitecan be older than 564 B.C. If an earlier settlement isassumed, it may have dated from the middle of the seventhCentury.In either case the temple of the Milesian Apollo wouldhave been among the earliest buildings erected. Herodotusstates that by permission of Amnsis, theindependently founded a temenos of Apollo (x^P'sMilesians8e...i-rr eoiVTwv ISpvcravTO refievos . . . M-lXt^ctlol ' AttoAAcuvos). Messrs.Petrie and Gardner, arguing forthe older date, put thefoundation shortly after the middle of the seventhcentury.The architectural remains are very scanty. Probablymuch of the first temple was built of mud bricks. Thestone portions may have been used again in the buildingof the second temple, whose ornaments were of marble.Moreover, all marble and stone is eagerly sought for andremoved by the modern Arab diggers.Naukratis, Part I., 1884-5, by W. M. Flinders Petrie and others ;Naukratis, Part II., 1 885-6, by E. A. Gardner ; G. Hirschfeld inRhein. Mus., N.F., XLII. (1887), p. 209, and XLIV. (1889),p. 461 ; Kirchhoflf, Studien, 4th edit. p. 43 ; Roberts, GreekEpigraphy, p. 323.The First Temple of Apollo.100. Columns.—The architectural members of the first templewere of limestone. They are insufiicient to fix the dimensionsof the temple, which was, however, small.Mr. Petriesupposes it to have been not move than twenty-five feetbroad. A volute and a complete base of an Ionic columnwere discovered, but were immediately destroyed byArabs. The following fragments are preserved :1, 2. Two members of an Ionic capital, consisting of twocourses of an egg and dart moulding. The uppercourse is considerably the larger. The lower course is