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(Patria 1.40)
Up to the Chalkos there was a plain; from the Chalkos to the Sphendon big pillars were erected, from which there is also the cold cistern (psykhra kinsterna) because the place was craggy.
The Chalkos is the Masonry Obelisk standing on the spine of the Hippodrome. It was clad in bronze plates. The Sphendone, or curved end of the Hippodrome, was built on massive substructures because the ground drops steeply to the south of the obelisk. The cistern within these substructures is recorded by Mamboury and Wiegand (1934), 41-2 (F8/5).
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