History of art in primitive Greece; Mycenian art from the French of Georges Perrot ... and Charles Chipiez. Illustrated with five hundred and forty-four engravings in the text, and twenty coloured plates (1894)
Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Gonino, I · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 443
t earlier, was long held as the Athenian Agora. A better-informed criticism, however, has identified the double esplanade extending along the eastern side of the Pnix, between the Observatory and the Monument, as a high-place, a kind of temple open to the sky (Fig. 153), and the religious centre of… … t fG. 153. — View of double esplanade known under the name of Pnix, numbers that flocked here. 1 he area was levelled out into a semi-circle or thereabouts, and a wall of polygonal stones was built to support the imported earth (Fig. 154). That this sub- structure was a later addition, is inferred…
Art · Art, Greek
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.