The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art (1860)
Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896, Wood, J. E, Davies, Benjamin Rees · London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts · leaf 318
h objection. Another proof of oriental influence on its architecture,were any wanting, is afforded by the Assyrian character of its city frieze. * This figure is on an angle-stone, and consequently there could have been nofigures in front of him. The same contempt appears to have been intended,… … In attributing the erection of the monument to the periodof the Persian sway, from 541 to 333 b. c, we find that the Erechtheum occupies a position about midway, 409 b. c, a date which affords us some clue for the date of erectionof the Xanthian monument. Herodotus recited his historyat the Olympic…
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