A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 106
as also the vault over the rivcM-.The u]q)er town, or acropolis, was built on aseries of terraces, on the lower one of whicli,above the agora, was Iwilt the great altar ofZeus, from which the sujierb series of sculpturesre)jresenting the liattles of the gods and theTitans were removed anil taken to… … ■yj*- ,-; ,_^;3itJs#^*^-^---?■^fe5fe,;*^feiS^«»i*Sl^-»■ AsIA Minor : Pe.4.sants Hut at Gyoeen. feet 6 inches high, of figures in high relief. Awide flight of steps led up to the altar, which,it is sujiposed, was enclosed within a court svu-rouuded by an loiuc peristyle facing outwaril.On a terrace…
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