A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 101
exist, as also the vault over the river.The upper town, or acropolis, was buOt on aseries of terraces, on the lower one of which,above the agora, was built the great altar ofZeus, from which the superb series of sculpturesrepresenting the battles of the gods and theTitans were removed and taken to… … Asi.v Minor: Peasants Hut at Gyoben. feet 6 inches high, of figures in high relief. Awide flight of steps led up to the altar, which,it is supposed, was enclosed within a court sur-rounded by an Ionic peristyle facing outward.On a terrace beyond this, and at a higher level,stood the Tenijile of…
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