Elderkin, G. W. (George Wicker), 1879- · Princeton, Princeton University Press · leaf 68
altogether probablethat the congestion in the west half of the present Erechtheum was dueto the crowding in of a chamber with the three altars of Poseidon-Erech-theus, Hephaestus and Butes, and the paintings of the Butadae—a chamberwhich in the original plan was to be placed at the west end of the… … . .\ Figure 12The original plan of the Erechtheum. Poseidon-Erechtheus, the exact counterpart of the eastern> was to receivethe altars and paintings,. Thfe intervening central chamber of proportions inharmony with those of the north porch was to contain the thalassa and thesacred olive, which…
