Not far from Chesma, Stashon won a naval victory over Tsar Antokh. here was also the city of Eriera, where the Sibyl Herophila was born. Post to Chesma, I paid tribute to the memory of Graz Aleksvya Grigorievich Orlov Chesmensky, a friend of my father, and my benefactor. Our ship passed the Khl1ossk Strait and took a direction to the west, with a light wind5. We sailed quite quickly, and early in the morning we passed between the islands of Andros and the Negroponto coast. Here we were already in Greshi, and left the Turkish VladBy. Vater verses. We passed by the island of Tsea and by noon we were in sight of Cape Sunum, now Saro Sooppa. Soon our ship was approaching the very cape. The ruins of the Minervina Temple were completely visible. I really wanted to go ashore and went there on a boat. Sun123 "mind in Attic, opposite the Cyclades islands and the Aegean Sea; from it they count 360 herds, or 37 miles, to the southern Negropontian cape Levka (white. The sun shone on the silver sea waves. On one side they were surrounded by the shores of Attica, on the other by the shores of the Pelononnese. Capes, mountains, islands, and between them were visible everywhere the bare and barren island of Indra; it is located near the shores of the Morea. They grow up and are brought up on the sea, get used to it from infancy, and for this reason they have been known from time immemorial as the best sailors of the Levant. They swim fearlessly in all weathers. In the last war, for the independence of Greshi, they fought bravely and never allowed a single Turk to enter their island. I went ashore at Suntum. It is steep, rocky and strewn with stones. At the very top are the remains of the temple of Minerva of Sunlum, far visible from the sea. Approaching the shore, we passed between it and the island of Makronisi (a long island). In ancient times it was called the Island of Helen, because Menelaus’s wife, returning from Troy to Lacedaemon, rested on it. This island belonged to the Haegnans, but did not bring them any income; it was all covered with stones; its length is seven miles.
The sailors stayed on the shore to swim, and I went to the temple. Sushum, as ancient geographers believed, was 330 stadia, or 41% miles from Piraeus, the main Aein pier; it was considered a Demos, or Attic settlement, belonging to the Attalis colphne. During the Peloponnesian War, the Aeinians adopted it to protect their transport ships. In our time, this mfeto remained completely bare for a long time, but now it is overgrown with shrubs, which always retain greenery. The remains of the walls that surrounded the valley, in the middle of which the temple was built, are also visible: they continued all the way to the pier. The Greeks called their special kind of masonry Pseudisodomum. I found a round well, and further away, at the very foot of the mountain, a pond or lake; the water in it is fresh and pleasant to the taste, but blackish.
The Temple of Minerva of Sunum was made entirely of white marble. The Aeinians probably built it at the same time as Pareenon. Judging by the architecture, I even believe that it belongs to the time of Pericles. There is no doubt that it is of the Doric order, like Pareenon, and built in the same dimensions; but it’s not as extensive as the Ayingxu Temple. From the remains one can still judge its beauty. The pediment of the temple was on six columns; Now. there are four of them left; There were also five pillars on the side, on the southwestern side, and four on the opposite side. Part of the vestibule and two pilasters from the midday Ffas are also intact; All the columns are broken and lie in Kuchf. I was told later that this wonderful building was destroyed not so long ago, in his fifties, by the famous Jaear-Bey, who commanded the “Gureck gallot: the barbarian wanted to use the iron and lead that tied the stones”... The vestibule is completely destroyed, and the pillars, rolling down to the sea, are broken and worn; I attribute this no longer so much to people as to the waves of the sea, constantly breaking on the shore. No matter how hard I tried to find some kind of inscription, I couldn’t find one. For this reason, travelers from different times stained the marble with their unknown names. The place and the temple were even lost in the name of Sunuma: they are usually called Saro-Sooppa, because the columns are visible far from the sea.