10.16.1 Of the offerings sent by the Lydian kings, I found nothing remaining except the iron stand of the bowl of Alyattes. This is the work of Glaukos the Chian, the man who discovered how to weld iron. Each plate of the stand is fastened to another, not by bolts or rivets, but by the welding, which is the only thing that fastens and holds together the iron.

10.16.2 The shape of the stand is very like that of a tower, wider at the bottom and rising to a narrow top. Each side of the stand is not solid throughout, but the iron cross strips are placed like the rungs of a ladder. The upright iron plates are turned outwards at the top, so forming a seat for the bowl.

10.16.3 What is called the Omphalos (Navel) by the Delphians is made of white marble, and is said by the Delphians to be the center of all the earth. Pindar^* in one of his odes supports their view.

10.16.4 There is here an offering of the Lacedaemonians, made by Kalamis, depicting Hermione, daughter of Menelaos, who married Orestes, son of Agamemnon, having previously been wedded to Neoptolemos, the son of Achilles. The Aetolians have dedicated a statue of Eurydamos, general of the Aetolians, who was their leader in the war against the army of the Gauls.

10.16.5 On the mountains of Crete, there is still in my time a city called Elyrus. Now the citizens sent to Delphi a bronze goat, which is suckling the babies, Phylacides, and Philandros. The Elyrians say that these were children of Apollo by the nymph Acacallis and that Apollo mated with Acacallis in the house of Carmanor in the city of Tarrha.

10.16.6 The Euboeans of Karystos too set up in the sanctuary of Apollo a bronze ox, from spoils taken in the Persian War. The people of Karystos and the Plataeans dedicated oxen, I believe, because, having repulsed the barbarian, they had won a secure prosperity, and especially a land free to plough. The Aetolian nation, having subdued their neighbors the Acarnanians, sent statues of generals and images of Apollo and Artemis.

10.16.7 I learned a very strange thing that happened to the Liparaeans in a war with the Etruscans. For the Liparaeans were bidden by the Pythian priestess to engage the Etruscans with the fewest possible ships. So they put out against the Etruscans with five triremes. Their enemies, refusing to admit that their seamanship was unequal to that of the Liparaeans, went out to meet them with an equal number of ships. These the Liparaeans captured, as they did a second five that came out against them, overcoming too a third squadron of five, and likewise a fourth. So they dedicated at Delphi images of Apollo equal in number to the ships that they had captured.

10.16.8 Ekhekratides of Larisa dedicated the small Apollo, said by the Delphians to have been the very first offering to be set up.