Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903, Redford, George, d. 1895 · Meadville, Penna. : Flood and Vincent : Chautauqua-Century Press · leaf 26
of Phidias. Of this sculpture many specimens are nowin the British Museum. They are called the Elgin Marbles,after Lord Elgin, who brought them from Greece in 1816 andafterwards sold them to the British government. The construction of this temple was of the most solid anddurable kind, marble being… … Fig. 13.—Section of the CiitEEK Doric Temple at P^stuji. AsRestored by Botticher. a timber framework, all traces of which have enthely per-ished ; and the mode in which it Avas constructed is a subjectupon which authorities differ, especially as to what provisionwas made for the admission of light.…
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