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English: Corfu (Greece). Ancient inscription already present in Verona Museum in the 1820s, which mentions the Kardaki Temple in the south end of the park of former royal estate 'Mon Repos', south of Corfu town. The article that published it added the following comment:
"This inscription commemorates the sanction of the Corcyrean republic of the construction of certain public works. It details the prices of or costs of tin, lead, brass, cartage, excavation, and workmanship ; the expense of a brazen serpent, of nitre for the altar, the erection of an obelisk, and a retaining wall built by Metrodorus. By it the magistrates approve of what has been executed. They state also the removal of the roof of the temple ; the abduction of the water-courses, lest the force of the springs should injure the retaining wall ; and although much is obliterated, intimate that the impetus of the flowing waters was to be diverted from the temple towards the docks and store-houses."
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Source (july-december 1828) The newly-discovered temple at Cadachio, vol. 26, The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and Art, p. 387
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