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Athenian coins.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Coins, Greece

Inscription in honor of Apollodora canephoros bearer of the round basket containing the implements of sacrifice, in the processions of the Panathenea. Catalogue of ex-votos of the Parthenon.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Inscriptions

Plan of the Temple of Olympian Zeus.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Plans and drawings

The Parthenon: All the remaining pieces of this Freeze on a smaller scale, brought together in one view, and ranged in the order in which they originally stood. A. A. the west end, B. B. the north side, C. C. the east end, D. D. the south side.

Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Parthenon

South frieze of the Parthenon: Horsemen, introduced here from the cavalcade on that side, because their dress is different from any that I saw on the northern.

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East frieze of the Parthenon: Sacrificers and Oxen.

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East frieze of the Parthenon.

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East frieze of the Parthenon.

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East frieze of the Parthenon: The giving of the peplos. Zeus with Hera.

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East frieze of the Parthenon: The giving of the Peplos. Athena with Hephaestus.

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East frieze of the Parthenon: Sacrificial procession.

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North frieze of the Parthenon: Three scaphephori or men carrying trays.

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North frieze of the Parthenon: Charioteers.

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North frieze of the Parthenon: Charioteers.

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North frieze of the Parthenon: Charioteers.

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North frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalcade.

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South frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalcade.

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South frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalcade.

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North frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalcade.

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North frieze of the Parthenon: Two youths preparing to mount their horses and follow the procession; others are just mounted and are beginning their march.

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South metopes of the Parthenon: Centaur combating a Lapith.

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South metopes of the Parthenon: Centaur combating a Lapith.

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South metopes of the Parthenon: Centaur combating a Lapith.

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The Parthenon: Sculptures from the east pediment.

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The Parthenon: Fig. 1. The Mouldings of the Capitals of the Columns of the Portico. Fig. 2. The Mouldings of the Capitals of the Columns of the Pronaus; both on a large scale.

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The Parthenon: Fig. 1. The capital and entablature of the columns of the Pronaus and Posticus. Fig. 2. The Capital of the Antae, and the Section or the Entablature of the Pronaus. Fig. 3. The Mouldings of the Capitals of the Antae, on a larger scale.

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The Parthenon: The Capital and Entablature of the Columns of the Portico.

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The Parthenon: Fig. 1. A section lengthways through the Portico and the Pronaus. Fig. 2. A section of the Pediment. Fig. 3. The Fillet and Cyma reversa under the Doric cymatium marked A. fig. 2. Fig. 4. The Moulding on the Corona of the Cornice marked B. fig. 2.

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The Parthenon: A transverse section of the Portico.

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The elevation of the Portico of the Parthenon.

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The plan of the Parthenon.

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A view of the eastern portico of the Parthenon. [In the interior, the mosque built after the 1687 explosion].

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Athenian coins.

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A plan of the Acropolis.

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Funerary stele depicting the farewell to the deceased.

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A view of the Acropolis taken from the situation of the ancient Piraic Gate. [In the foreground two Ottoman officials of the city.]

Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece

Hadrian's Library in Athens: Fig. 1. The cornice of the lateral walls and of the exhedrae. Fig. 2. The architrave of the gate-way or entrance before which the portal in the middle of the front is placed. Fig. 3. A section of the aforesaid architrave. Fig. 4. The mouldings and impost of the ancient arch in the church of the Megâle Panagía. Fig. 5. The section of an architrave supported by the three columns, and by the pilaster which are contiguous to the above mentioned church. Fig. 6. The capital of the pilaster.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens)

Hadrian's Library in Athens: The plan and elevation of some ruins on which part of the church called the Megali Panagia is built.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens)

Hadrian's Library in Athens: Fig. 1. The plan of the capital. Fig. 2. The angular view of the capital.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens)

Hadrian's Library in Athens: The capital and entablature of the columns on the front of the building.

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Hadrian's Library in Athens: The base of one of the four fluted columns of the portal.

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Hadrian's Library in Athens: Part of the external face of the lateral wall or flank of this building.

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Hadrian's Library in Athens: The section of the portal and of the gate-way of entrance before which it is placed.

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Hadrian's Library in Athens: A section of the front wall with a profile of the portal and the southern pteroma, with one of the columns between the portal and the northern pteroma.

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The elevation of the portal of Hadrian's Library and the facade to the north of the portal.

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Plan of Hadrian's Library.

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Funerary vase. Sketch of a part of the ancient Agora. Ancient inscriptions.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Libraries, Library of Hadrian / Church of Megali Panagia (Athens)

Ornamental feature from column.

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Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: Sculpture on the frieze of this building, which represents the story of Bacchus and the Tyrrhenian Pirates.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Dionysus, Greece, Satyrs

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