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The Erechtheion: A section through the vestibule or pronaus; showing the internal face of the western front of the building. 2. A section through the wall of the western front.

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

Erechtheion: The plan reversed, and sections of the capital.

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Erechtheion: Fig. 1. The capital and base of the columns on the western front, with the mouldings of the basement on which those columns stand. Fig. 2. A section of the basement, &c.

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Erechtheion: The elevation of the western front.

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Erechtheion: The plan reversed, and the necessary sections of the capitals.

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Erechtheion: Fig. 1. Capital, Base, and Entablature of the Portico. Fig. 2. The Capital and Base of the Antae. Fig. 3. Profile of the moulding under the Corona, with the ornament carved on it. Fig. 4. The same viewed from below, to shew the effect of the flower on the Angle.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Erechtheion, Greece, Ionic order, Plans and drawings

Erechtheion: Elevation of the north side.

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Erechtheion: The plan reversed, and Sections of the Capital.

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The Base, Capital and Entablature of the Erechtheum, with the Capital and Base of the Antae of the Portico.

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Erechtheion: The elevation of the Portico.

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Plan of the Erechtheion.

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View of the Erechtheion. Workmen excavating to reveal the base of the prostasis underneath the Caryatids. Ottoman official Dizdar Aǧa is leaning on his son-in-law's shoulder while two other Ottomans are supervising the excavations in order to keep him informed and to ensure that the British are not carrying away the archaeological findings. On the foreground a man, probably James Stuart, drawing the monument.

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.

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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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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].

Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Flower pots, Gardens, Greece, Houses, Mosques, Parthenon, Women

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.]

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