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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    on two difFerent foundations, inasmuch as a terrace extended along on the north and west sides, and stopped short towards the north and west (on which side stood the rolxo? 6 Ut6; in the inscription). Size without the porticoes 73 X 37 feet. Caryatids (xogss/, Athenian maidens in the full Panathenseic costume) [§. 330, 6] around the portico in the south-west corner (in which the Erechtheian salt spring and the very old olive-tree appear to have been); windows and engaged columns in the Pandro- seion. The frieze of the whole was of ELeusinian lime-stone with reliefs (of metal) fixed on (^ia). [Seventeen pieces stand in the Erechtheion, a hst of them in Ann. d. I. xv. p. 309 sq.] The Ionic architecture pre- sents much that is peculiar, especially in the capitals (§. 276); the care in execution is unsurpassed. Stuart ii. ch. 2. Wilkins, p. 75. The author's Minervae PoUadis sacra et sedis. 1820. Rose, Inscript. Graecse Vetustissimse, p. 145. C. I. i. p. 261. New Edition of Stuart, p. 482, Fragments of a second inscription referring to this temple. Kunstbl. 1836. St. 60 [39 f. Complete in the 'B<pyi,ue^k dqx^'o'^-1837. p. 30. in Ranga- bis Antiqu. HeUen. p. 45. and Ann. d. I. xv. p. 286—327. An architect Archilochus of Agryle therein]. Inwood The Erechtheion of Athens, fragments of Athenian architecture, and a few remains in Attica, Megara and Epirus. L. 1827. [Von Quast Das Erechtheum zu Athen nach dem Werk des Hr. Inwood B. 1840.—Temple of Athene Ergane on the acropo- lis. See Ulrichs in the 'A^nvx 1841. 4th June, and in the Abhd. der Miinchner Akad. philos. philol. Kl. iii, 3. S. 627.] 5. Elbusis. Uned. Antiq. of Attica, ch. 1—5 (Traduct. par M. Hittorff Ann. d. Inst. iv. p. 345). a. The great temple {/^kyct^ov, ii.va.x.ro^ov) erected under the superintendence of Ictinus of Coroebus, Metagenes, and Xeno- cles, and planned for the celebration of the mysteries. Departure in the Eleusinian building from the pure style. Kugler S. 43. A large cella with four rows of Doric columns running across in two tiers; between them a large opening for light, which was arched by Xenocles (to S-ttocIou i>cQ^v(po)crs Plut. Pericl. 13. comp. Pollux ii, 64), as this temple must not be hypaethral. Portico of 12 Doric columns (by Philo in the time of Deme- trius Phalereus) which have already thin fillets between the flutings. 212. 10. 2 X 178. 6. the measurement of the square within 167 X 166. 6. Beneath the cella a crypt, undiminished cylinders supported the upper floor. The material mostly Eleusinian lime - stone, little marble. The size of the whole 220 X 178 f. Statements somewhat at variance, Ionian Antiq. ch. 6, 19—21, new ed. h. The smaller Propylcea in the inner peri- bolos, with enigmatical disposition of the door. We have here the capi- tal of a pilaster with the leaves of the acanthus, c. Tlie larger Propylcea in the outer court. Entirely similar to those on the acropolis ; only without the side buildings. The panneUed ceiling {o(>o(pn) praised there by Pausanias is here more distinct (whether Appii propylseum, Cicero ad Att. vi, 1 ?). d. A small temple of AHemis Propylasa, a templum in antis, Doric, e. A small temple on the rock above the Megaron, in the inner peribolos.—None of the buildings at Eleusis were completely finished. OTHER ATTIC TEMPLES. 6. At Rhamnus. The larger temple of Nemesis, hexast. peript., Doric, 71 X 33 f. was probably begun in the time of Pericles (comp. §. 117), but not finished till later (fillets with the flutings). Rich paintings and