CHAPTER VII.

COMMENCEMENT OF THE EXCAVATIONS.

Visit from Mohammed El Adouly — Commence the excavations at two tombs in the Wady Bil Ghadir — These not proving successful, remove the men to a temple near the southern gate of the city — Discover the statue of Bacchus — The novel mode of removing it — Subsequent excavations in a building adjoining a theatre, and afterwards in the Temple of Apollo — Discover the colossal statue of Apollo; supposed statue of Hadrian; head of Minerva; the portrait-head of Cnæus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, with its pedestal and inscription; a bronze portrait-head; Jupiter Ammon; a group representing the nymph Cyrene strangling a lion; Diana Venatrix — Description of the temple. — _Page_ 38.