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Ruins of ancient building embedded into a residence, next to the Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds), Athens: Fig. 1: Elevation of the part remaining, which shews that there were not fewer than three arches. Fig. 2: Plan of ditto. Fig. 3: Capitals of the pilasters with the profile of the archivolt; the spandrel, which is a rose, projects equal to the upper facia of the archivolt, as shewn upon the right hand side, where the profile of the archivolt is given; but the projection of the central filet is shewn on the left from the flat surface of the spandrel. Fig. 4: Is the profile of the impost mouldings. Fig. 5: Section through the entablature, which is probably incomplete.Fig. 6: Spandrel with the rose. Fig. 7: Profile in the center between the two capitals of the pilasters, shewing the manner in which the mouldings finish against the background.

Tags: Ancient ruins near the Tower of the Winds, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Plans and drawings

Roman colonnade close to the Choregic monument of Lysicrates: Fig. 1: The base, capital, architrave and frieze. Fig. 2: Profile of the internal face of the architrave.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Greece, Ionic order, Plans and drawings

Roman colonnade close to the Choregic monument of Lysicrates: Fig. 1: Elevation of the columns. Fig.2: Plan of ditto. Fig.3: Plan of the capital. Fig. 4: Flank of the capital. Fig. 5: Section through the front of ditto. Fig. 6: Section through the flank of ditto. Fig.7: The spiral line of the volute, by a larger scale. Fig. 8: The section of the volute and abacus, which, by a mistake, has been put upside down. Fig. 9: Eye of the volute.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Greece, Ionic order, Plans and drawings

Relief found at a church at Marousi, Athens.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Plans and drawings

Votive relief found on the wall of a school close to the church of Megali Panagia, Athens.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Plans and drawings

Stoa of Philip V, Delos: Elevations and section plans of the entablature and other architectural features.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Delos, Greece, Plans and drawings, Stoa of Philip V (Delos)

Stoa of Philip V, Delos: The shaft, capital, and entablature of the columns. The inscription is given by Tournefort, who visited Delos in the year 1700.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Delos, Greece, Plans and drawings, Stoa of Philip V (Delos)

Stoa of Philip V, Delos: Plan and elevation of the portico.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Delos, Greece, Plans and drawings, Stoa of Philip V (Delos)

Temple of Apollo, Delos: Shaft, capital, and entablature of the columns.

Tags: Aegean islands, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Delos, Greece, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo (Delos)

Plan of Doric columns and elevation of Doric colonnade together with entablature, possibly from the Temple of Apollo, Delos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Delos, Greece, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo (Delos)

Map of Delos and the islands nearby.

Tags: Aegean islands, Cyclades, Delos, Greece, Maps

Ancient altar from Myconos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Greece, Myconos, Plans and drawings

Inscriptions and shield reliefs from trophies, found near Stoa of Philip V, Delos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Delos, Greece

Maenad from the now lost Incantadas monument, Thessaloniki.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), Mythology, Roman monuments

Dionysus with panther from the now lost Incantadas monument, Thessaloniki.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Dionysus, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), Mythology, Roman monuments

Ariadne from the now lost Incantadas monument, Thessaloniki.

Tags: Ariadne, Art and antiquities, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), Mythology, Roman monuments

Leda from the now lost Incantadas monument, Thessaloniki.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), Leda, Mythology, Roman monuments

Ganymedes from the now lost Incantadas monument, Thessaloniki.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Ganymedes, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), Mythology, Roman monuments

Dioscorus from the now lost Incantadas monument, Thessaloniki.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), Mythology, Roman monuments

Aura, from the now lost Incantadas monument, Thessaloniki.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), Mythology, Roman monuments

The now lost Incantadas monument, Thessaloniki: A figure representing Victory. [Lion's head added by Revett).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), Roman monuments

The now lost Incantadas monument, Thessaloniki: Moulding of the Attic, and two Macedonian medals of the same device; one barbarous, the other elegant work.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Coins, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), Macedonia, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments, Thessaloniki

The now lost Incantadas monument, Thessaloniki: Pedestal, base and plan reversed of the capital.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), Macedonia, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments, Thessaloniki

The now lost Incantadas monument, Thessaloniki: The capital and entablature.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), Macedonia, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments, Thessaloniki

The now lost Incantadas monument, Thessaloniki: Plan, elevation and section.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), Plans and drawings, Roman monuments

View of the sculptures of the now lost Incantadas monument at the southern entrance of the Roman Agora of Thessaloniki. The sculptures were incorporated in the house of a family of Sephardi Jewish merchants. British consul Paradise, who has come to show John Stuart and Nicholas Revett the monument, meets the owner of the house. A young servant offers the consul a cup of coffee while from above the owner's wife reprimands her husband for not having invited the consul to sit before offering him coffee. On the left, a woman who is spinning approaches the travellers. On the right, Stuart and Revett with the young son of the British consul, who is escorted by the consul's dragoman (interpreter).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Author portraits, Britons, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Incantadas monument (Thessaloniki), James Stuart, Jews, Macedonia, Nicholas Revett, Professions, Roman monuments, Social sphere and everyday life, Thessaloniki, Travel, Women

Relief from Megali Panagia church, Thessaloniki.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Greece, Macedonia, Thessaloniki

Coins from Macedonia.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Coins, Greece, Macedonia

Pnyx: Fig. 1.The plan of the remains on the rock [...]. Fig. 2: Plan of the bema, the public speaking platform . Fig. 3. Profile of the bema.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Plans and drawings, Pnyx

Reliefs from Daphni Monastery.

Architectural feature of ancient column.

Tags: Art and antiquities

View of the Stadium Panathenaicum, taken as standing upon the elevated part of the circular end, which is next to the south, and looking down upon it.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Natural environment, Panathenaic Stadium

Plan of the Roman bridge over Ilissus, with the elevation of it next to the south west.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Bridge of Ilissus, Bridges, Greece, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments

Relief showing an athlete, Athens.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece

Fragment from church in Athens.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece

View of Acrocorinth.

Tags: Acrocorinth, Art and antiquities, Corinthia, Greece, Natural environment, Peloponnese

Temple of Apollo, ancient Corinth: Fig. 1: Capital and architrave of the columns with the step. There were six drops under each triglyph, but all of them broke off, for which reason they could not be measured nor drawn. Fig. 2: Annulets, or listels under the ovolo, full size.

Tags: Ancient Corinth, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corinth, Corinthia, Greece, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo (Ancient Corinth)

Temple of Apollo, ancient Corinth: Fig. 1: Elevation of what is supposed to have been the flank of the temple. The modern wall between the columns is inserted in this elevation no measures of the column which formed a part of the pronaos have been found. Fig. 2: Plan of the temple.

Tags: Ancient Corinth, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corinth, Corinthia, Greece, Peloponnese, Plans and drawings, Temple of Apollo (Ancient Corinth)

The Tail-Piece is an Isthmian crown, in the center of which is a medallion of Bellerophon watering Pegasus copied from an antique gem.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Corinthia, Greece, Isthmian Games, Mythology, Peloponnese

Coins of ancient Corinth showing Pegasus, Athena, Persephone, and Bellerophon killing Chimaera.

Tags: Ancient Corinth, Art and antiquities, Coins, Corinth, Corinthia, Greece, Peloponnese

Monument of Philopappus, Athens: Philopappus is proclaimed consul of Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Monument of Philopappus, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments

Monument of Philopappus, Athens: Philopappus is proclaimed consul of Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Monument of Philopappus, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments

Monument of Philopappus, Athens: Philopappus is proclaimed consul of Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Monument of Philopappus, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments

Monument of Philopappus, Athens: The central part of the basso relievo under the middle niche; Philopappus is proclaimed consul of Athens.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Monument of Philopappus, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments

Monument of Philopappus, Athens: Fig. 1. The capital and entablature of the curved or principal front. Fig. 2. Section of the capital.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Monument of Philopappus, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments

Monument of Philopappus, Athens: Fig. 1. The base, capital and architrave of the pilaster, in the back front. Fig. 2. The plan of the capital reversed. Fig. 3. The profile of the capital. Fig. 4. The mouldings of the niches in the curved front.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Monument of Philopappus, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments

Monument of Philopappus, Athens: The mouldings of the basement, with the base of the Corintihian pilasters.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Monument of Philopappus, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments

Monument of Philopappus, Athens: A transverse section through the middle of the monument.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Monument of Philopappus, Plans and drawings, Roman monuments

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