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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 77

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trace of the volute. It deservesnotice, too, as a peculiarity in the construction ofthis edifice, that the frieze and part of the pedimentis faced with thin slabs of a grey limestone, which is,in the inscription already referred to, called u Eleu-sinian stone/# * Mr. Woods, in the Letters of an… … HUS far the former publication, andthis abstract, brief as it is, was theresult of somewhat more researchthan would be anticipated by readersinexperienced in the difficulties whichbeset the architectural student in his efforts to combineand interpret the rich relics of antiquity. He hasto correct…

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