Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.

  • Karl Otfried Müller
Date:
1852
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    2. The Paktuenon or Hecatompebon, 60 feet larger (longer) than an older one whose site it occupied, Hesych. Built by Ictinus and Callicrates, a work on it by Ictinus and Carpion. Peript. hexast. hypeeth, in the Doric order, on a high platform, entirely of Pentelic marble. Substruc- tion, Ross Kunstbl. 1835. No. 31. Consists of the encircling colonnade; the ■Ts-iiovvitou at each end, formed by columns with railings between, the hecatompedon strictly so called, that is the cella 100 feet in length [breadth rather, calculated after Stuart p. 8. and Le Roy p. 5. by Ideler in the Schr. der Berl. Akad. 1812. S. 186] with 16 (or 23?) columns round the hypsethron; the parthenon properly so called, or chamber for the virgin, a square enclosed space around the statue; and the closed opisthodomos with 4 columns, to the west. The front was to the east. Entire dimen- sions 227 X 101 English feet, height 65 feet. The height of the columns 12 mod., the intercol. almost 2f, diminution of the shaft i%; the swell corner columns 2inches thicker. Shields hung on the architrave; re- garding its riches in statuary §. 118. The triglyph frieze ingeniously composed with the greatest possible saving of stone, Klenze Aphorist. Bern. S. 368. Tf. 1. Fig. 2, 3. The pure splendour of the marble was enhanced by the gold and colours used in ornamenting the bmaller fillets and mouldings. The temple suffered particularly on the 28th of Sept. 1687, from the Venetians, and more recently from Elgin; but it always still excites a wonderful enthusiasm. J. Spon (1675) Voy. de Gr^ce. Stuart ii. ch. i. Wilkins, Atheniensia, p. 93, Leake, Topography, ch. 8. Bockh C. I. p. 177. The new editors of Stuart in the German translation (Darm- stadt 1829) i. p. 293, where there is also given at page 349 an account of the vestiges of the old Parthenon. Cockerell's plan in Brondsted, Voy. dans la Gr^ce ii. pi. 38. On Heger's Investigations, Gott. G. A. 1832, s. 849. The Parthenon measured anew by J. Hoffer, Wiener Bauzeit. 1838. N. 40 ff. [There is a model of the restored Parthenon in the gallery of the Bodleiana at Oxford, Q\ feet in length.] One also in the Brit. Museum. 3. The PfiOPYiiJiJA, built by Mnesicles. They formed the access to the acropolis as to the court of a temple, and stood in connexion with a road leading up from the market. Carriage road to the Propylsea of Pentelic marble slabs. L. Ross in the Kunstbl. 1836. N. 60. A grand gate, with four subordinate doors, an Ionic portico on the outside, and on each side a Doric frontispiece, the architecture of which was very skilfully combined with the Ionic in the interior. Comp. N. 5, c. At the sides project wings, the northmost of which served as a poikile; in front of the one to the south stood a small temple to Nike Apteros. Stuart ii, ch. 5. Kinnard, Antiq. of Athens, Suppl. (on the ascent). Leake, Topogr. ch. 8. p. 176. Le temple de Victoire sans ailes, restaure par R. Kous- min decrit par V. Ballanti R. 1837 fo. Bull. 1837. p. 218. [Kunstbl. 1835. N. 78 f. L. Ross u. E. Schaubert Die Akropolis von Atheu, 1 Abth. der T. der Nike Apteros. B. 1839. fo.] 4. The Temple of Athena Polias and Poseidon Erechtheus. A very ancient sanctuary which was renewed after the Persian war, but (ac- cording to the Record C. I. n. 160) not completed till after 92, 4, full of sacred monuments, by means of which the plan of the building received peculiar modifications. A double temple (moj h'Tr-Kois) with a separate apartment to the west (Pandroseion) a prostyle to the cast, and two porticoes {TT^oarciat,;) OH the N.W. and S.W. corners. The edifice stood