Untitled

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 209, 3 September 1900, Page 8

The crowning piece of good fortune in the excavations which have for four yeaife been earned on at Corinth by tlie American School has been attained during the past few weeks. The only fountain mentioned by Pausanias in the Agora was found, and was absolutely intact, with the bronze lions' heads from which the water once flowed still in their places in the face of a Avail. The floor with holes under the spout in which the women in Old Corinth used to place their water pitchers is twenty-four and a half feet below the surface of the soil of to-day. In pushing into the Agora to the west , of. the Propylaea. there appeared in great confusion parts of a .large building, massive architrave blocks, with their faces richly carved with various ornamentation, cornice block to match and, along with them, a series of. colossal statues, male and female, fortunately —and the fact is exceptional-* with their heads. These were followed by some fine reliefs, both of Greek and Roman, particularly a fine head of Ariadne in a state of perfect, preservation, as if it had just come from the sculptor's hands. Other buildings adjacent to the Agora have been partially or wholly laid bare and the work is still in progress. But the crowning result of this year's work will doubtless be this fountain, the top of which is the base on which once stood the bronze Poseidon with a dolphin at his feet spouting out water. The probability is growing that the massive architectural blocks and the colossal statues fell from thePropylaea, a reconstruction of which will probably be possible.