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Three of the eight dials on the Tower of the Winds. Under the word ΝΟΤΟΣ is that on the south side; under ΕΥΡΟΣ is that on the south-east side; and under ΑΠΗΛΙΩΤΗΣ, that on the east side of the Tower.

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

The internal mouldings of the Tower of the Winds: Fig. 1. The lower cornice. Fig. 2. The second cornice, enriched with dentels and modilions. Fig. 3. The soffit of the second cornice. Fig. 4. The circular fascia with the inferior part of one of the columns which it supports, likewise the capital and the entablature of those columns. Fig. 5. Explains the manner in which the cabled part of the flutings on those columns are terminated.

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: The capital of one of the antae.

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

Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos) Athens: Fig 1. The capital and entablature of the portico before the door. Fig. 2. A fragment of the Dentells belonging to the cornice of the entablature. Fig. 3. The profile of the cornice belonging to the circular projection under the figure of ΝΟΤΟΣ.

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

Fig. 1. A quarter of the roof of the Tower of the Winds. Fig. 2. A section of half the aforesaid roof. Fig. 3. The fragment of a capital marked B in the preceeding figure, and which in Plate III of this chapter is, with some restorations made to support the conical Marble and the Triton.

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

Ι. The external mouldings of the Tower of the Winds. ΙΙ. A section of the uppermost of the three steps which form the basis or stereobata on which the building stands.

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

Section of the Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds) in Athens.

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

The elevation of the Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos) in Athens.

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

Plan of the Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos) in Athens.

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

The Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds) in Athens, with the Acropolis in the background.
Seikh Mustafa, chief of the order of Whirling Dervishes, who used the monument as their tekije (dervish lodge), is standing at the entrance of the monument, leaning on a staff, with his back turned.
In the foreground, a woman from an affluent family is promenading with her daughters and maidservant.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dervishes, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Horses, Human types, Ottomans, Priests, Women

Relief of Apollo Agyieus, bearing the inscription: ΑΓΑΘΗΙ ΤΥΧΗΙ. ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΟΣ ΑΓΥΙΕΩΣ ΠΡΟΣΤΑΤΕΡΙ ΠΑΤΡΩΟΝ ΠΥΘΙΟΥ ΚΛΑΡΙΟΥ ΠΑΝΙΟΝΙΟΥ.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Apollo, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Sculptures

Ormament of architectural feature.

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

Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae (Panagia stin Petra), Athens: The capital and base of one of the antae; with the different architraves which are employed in this building. Fig. 1. A., The architrave within the portico. Fig. 2. The architrave to the Pronaos. Fig. 3. The Form of the ancient Ornament which is painted on the upper Fascia of the Architrave of the Pronaos. Fig. 4. The architrave to the Posticus.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae / Panagia stin Petra (Athens)

Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae (Panagia stin Petra), Athens: The plan, profile, and section of an angular capital belonging to this ionic temple.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Plans and drawings, Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae / Panagia stin Petra (Athens)

Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae (Panagia stin Petra), Athens: Fig. 1. The capital and base of the columns, together with the entablature. Fig. 2. A section of one quarter of the column, to shew the number and proportion of the flutings. Fig. 3. The manner of forming the Flutings.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Plans and drawings, Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae / Panagia stin Petra (Athens)

Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae (Panagia stin Petra), Athens: The section of the temple, lengthways.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae / Panagia stin Petra (Athens)

Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae (Panagia stin Petra), Athens: The south side of the Temple.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae / Panagia stin Petra (Athens)

Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae (Panagia stin Petra), Athens: The elevation of the Portico.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae / Panagia stin Petra (Athens)

Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae (Panagia stin Petra), Athens: A plan of this Temple.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae / Panagia stin Petra (Athens)

South view of the Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae (Panagia stin Petra) in Athens. The figures represent the Vaiwode, or Turkish Governor of Athens, with some of its attendants on a hunting party.

Ionian capital from the Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae (Panagia stin Petra) in Athens.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece

Mosaic, most probably from a building somewhere in between the Temple of Hephaestus (Thiseion) and Dipylo.

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

Gate of Athena Archegetis (mod. Pazaroporta): 1. The capital of the Antae, with a section of the entablature. 2. A section of the capital of the Antae. 3. A section of the Cornice over the Pediment.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Gate of Athena Archegetis / mod. Pazaroporta, Greece

The capital and the entablature of the Gate of Athena Archegetis (mod. Pazaroporta).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Gate of Athena Archegetis / mod. Pazaroporta, Greece

Lateral elevation of the Gate of Athena Archegetis (mod. Pazaroporta).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Gate of Athena Archegetis / mod. Pazaroporta, Greece

Front elevation of the Gate of Athena Archegetis (mod. Pazaroporta).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Gate of Athena Archegetis / mod. Pazaroporta, Greece

Gate of Athena Archegetis (mod. Pazaroporta): 1. Plan of the portico. 2. Profile of the Capital of the Columns of this Portico.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Gate of Athena Archegetis / mod. Pazaroporta, Greece

Votive stele and coins of the Roman era.

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

Triglyph and metopes.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece

General view of Athens from Hadrian's Aqueduct (Dexameni) in Athens.

Tags: Animals, Aqueduct of Hadrian /Dexameni (Athens), Archers, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Ethnic groups, Greece, Greeks, Horses, Ottoman officials, Ottomans

Inscription on throne ordered by Sagaris, treasure keeper of Achaia, in the memory of the pedagogue Turanius Maximus. The throne was found at the Church of Hagios Spyridonas in Piraeus.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Inscriptions, Piraeus

Composition of ancient inscriptions.

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

Ancient coins of Athens. Coins of the King George III.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Coins, George III of England, Greece

Megara by moonlight.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Megara, Natural environment

The tomb of Themistocles in Drapetsona.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Attica, Boats and ships, Central Greece, Drapetsona, Funerary monuments, Greece, Piraeus, Tomb of Themistocles (Piraeus)

Houses in 19th-century Athens, based on a drawing by C.R.Cockerell.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Athens, Attica, Greece, Houses, Human types, Views

Ottoman fountain near Ilissus.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Athens, Attica, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Human types, Ilissus (Ilisos) river, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Rivers, Social sphere and everyday life, Views, Weapons, Women

The Temple of Olympian Zeus from the Ilissus, based on a drawing by C.R.Cockerell.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Ilissus (Ilisos) river, Natural environment, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens), Rivers, Views

The ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Olympeion - Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens)

The Choregic Monument of Lysicrates.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Greece

The putative cenotaph of Euripides on the road from Athens to Piraeus.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Cenotaph of Euripides, Dogs, Greece

The Gate of Athena Archegetis in the Roman Agora of Athens.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Camels, Costume - Hats and headwear, Dogs, Donkeys, Greece, Human types, Modes of transport, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Athens from the north-west - from a sketch by C.R.Cockerell.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Athens, Attica, Greece, Houses, Natural environment, Views

Stone bema of the Pnyx.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Pnyx, Views

The Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, based on a drawing by C.R.Cockerell.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Houses, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

The portico of the Temple of Hephaestus, based on a drawing by C.R.Cockerell.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

The Choregic Monument of Thrasyllus.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Choregic monument of Thrasyllus (Panagia Spiliotissa), Greece, Human types, Views

Reconstruction of the Horologion of Andronicos Kyrristos or Tower of the Winds.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Views

The prostasis of the Caryatids, Erechtheion.

Tags: Acropoleis, Acropolis of Athens, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Caryatids, Erechtheion, Greece

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