The antiquities of Athens and other monuments of Greece (1858)
Stuart, James, 1713-1788, Revett, Nicholas, 1720-1804 · London : H. G. Bohn · leaf 57
question of its great antiquity. The profusion with which embellishment waslavished on this beautiful structure, is nowhere moreremarkable than in the highly ornamented junctionof the shaft with the capital. Instead of the com-mon termination of the fluting, it is finished offinto a sort of leaf;… … ^ HIS wreck of the magnificentstructure passed among themodern Athenians as the palaceeither of Pericles or of Themis-tocles, a guess only resortedto in the utter ignorance ofgenuine tradition and archi-tectural appropriation. Wheler and Spon sup-posed these ruins to have belonged to the templeof…
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