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The antiquities of Athens and other monuments of Greece (1858)

Stuart, James, 1713-1788, Revett, Nicholas, 1720-1804 · London : H. G. Bohn · leaf 150

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is respect, is atthe expense of all that is characteristic in the Doricshaft, and that the straight profile of the echinus is 134 THE ISLAND OF DELOS. mean and ineffective, while the capital altogether isrendered insignificant by deficiency in size and mass. PLATE LXIX. Entablature, capital, and… … F the localities connected withAthenian antiquity, none aremore decidedly indicated thanthis remarkable site. It ex-hibits nothing of complicatedconstruction : a few lines andmasses of rock and masonry,with a little levelling of surface, are all that exist—all,or nearly all, that ever did exist—to…

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