Mahaffy, John Pentland, Sir, 1839-1919 · London Macmillan · leaf 133
e than life size—the one representingthe birth of Athene, and the other her contest withPoseidon for the patronage of Athens. Some ofthe figures from one of these are the great drapedheadless women in the centre of the Parthenonroom of the British Museum: other fragments ofthose broken by the… … iv.] ATHENS—THE ACROPOLIS. 99 glyphs, and carved in relief with a single smallgroup on each. The height of these surfaces doesnot exceed four feet. There was, thirdly, a bandof reliefs running all round the external wall at thetop of the cella, inside the surrounding pillars, andopposite to them,…
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