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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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, Greece, Satyrs

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, Greece, Satyrs

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, Greece, Satyrs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, Greece, Satyrs

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, Greece, Satyrs

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

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

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, Greece, Satyrs

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, Greece, Satyrs

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, Greece, Satyrs

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, Greece, Satyrs

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

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

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: Sculpture on the frize of this building, which represents the story of Bacchus and the Tyrrhenian Pirates: Figure of Bacchus with his tiger.

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

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: Fig. 1. The flower on the top of the tholus or cupola. Fig. 2. The plan of the upper surface of the flower. Fig. 3. A perpendicular section of the top of the flower, made through the line A, B, C of the preceding figure.

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

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: Fig. 1. A quarter of the upper surface of the Tholus or Cupola. Fig. 2. A section of the cupola made on the line CD of the foregoing figure. Fig. 3. A section of part of the cupola on the line EF. Fig. 4. A section of the helix or scroll marked A in Fig. 1, and 2. Fig. 5. represents the remains of the vitruvian scrols.

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

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: The plan reversed, and the sections of the capital, with the elevation of half the unfinished part of the capital.

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

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: The external face of the capital, with the entablature, and half one of the tripods.

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

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: The base of the column with the circular zoccolos or steps which are immediately above the quadrangular basement.

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

Section of the Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens.

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

Elevation of the Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens.

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Plan of the Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens.

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A view of the Choregic Monument of Lysicrates in its present condition.

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

Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens: An attempt to restore the upper part of this building and to explain the manner which the tripod was originally placed on it.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Capuchin friars, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Choregic monuments, Gardens, Greece, Libraries, Monasteries, Monks, Priests

Coin of Athens and inscription from the Choregic monument of Lysicrates.

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

Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos) in Athens: Sciron, the north-west wind; the dryest which blows in Athens. This wind is extremely cold in winter, but in the summer is scorching, violent, and accompanied with fierce and frequent lightings; it does great mischief to all vegetable productions, and affects the health of the inhabitants.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens)

Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos) in Athens: Zephyrus, the west wind; in the summer brings very sultry weather, but in the spring is pleasant, warm, and favorable to the vegetation.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens)

Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos) in Athens: Libs, the south-west wind; blows directly across the Saronic Gulf, full on that shore of Attica which extends from the Isthmus of Corinth, to the promontory of Sunium; and right into the Piraeus.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens)

Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos) in Athens: Notus the south wind; is sultry and very wet.

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Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos) in Athens: Eurus, the south east wind; which at Athens is sultry and gloomy, and brings much rain.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens)

Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos) in Athens: Apeliotes, the east wind; brings a gradual gentle rain, and is a great friend to Vegetation.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens)

Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos) in Athes: Kaikias or Caecias, the north-east wind, is cloudy, wet and cold; snow, and at some seasons hail and tempest accompany this.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens)

Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos) in Athens: Boreas, the north wind; is cold, fierce and stormy.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens)

Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos) in Athens: Two more of the eight dials. Under the word ΚΑΙΚΙΑΣ, is that on the north-east side; and under the word ΒΟΡΕΑΣ, that on the north side of the tower.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens)

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