The Parthenon; an essay on the mode by which light was introduced into Greek and Roman temples (1883)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · London, J. Murray · leaf 58
how to stop the attic ateither end. At the west, as shown in the plan, woodcut 18,there is a division at about 50 feet from that end, and a screenacross the temple inside, which seems to demand such anarrangement externally. About the same distance from theeast front—in spite of Yitruvius both the… … g H S ^ * f® P 18.—Plak of Temple atBaalbec. (100 feet to 1 inch.) 44 THE PARTHENON. Chap. II. this Turkish wall does replace a screen of some sort, for the cornices of thepronaos stop at it, and the masonry on the left hand between it and the true frontof tlie temple is rough and unpolished to an…
Parthenon (Athens, Greece) · Temples · Lighting
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