Art and antiquities (4900 Subjects)
South metopes of the Parthenon: Centaur combating a Lapith.
South metopes of the Parthenon: Centaur combating a Lapith.
North frieze of the Parthenon: Two youths preparing to mount their horses and follow the procession; others are just mounted and are beginning their march.
North frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalcade.
South frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalcade.
South frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalcade.
North frieze of the Parthenon: Cavalcade.
North frieze of the Parthenon: Charioteers.
North frieze of the Parthenon: Charioteers.
North frieze of the Parthenon: Charioteers.
North frieze of the Parthenon: Three scaphephori or men carrying trays.
East frieze of the Parthenon: Sacrificial procession.
East frieze of the Parthenon: The giving of the Peplos. Athena with Hephaestus.
East frieze of the Parthenon: The giving of the peplos. Zeus with Hera.
East frieze of the Parthenon.
East frieze of the Parthenon.
East frieze of the Parthenon: Sacrificers and Oxen.
South frieze of the Parthenon: Horsemen, introduced here from the cavalcade on that side, because their dress is different from any that I saw on the northern.
The Parthenon: All the remaining pieces of this Freeze on a smaller scale, brought together in one view, and ranged in the order in which they originally stood. A. A. the west end, B. B. the north side, C. C. the east end, D. D. the south side.
Plan of the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
Inscription in honor of Apollodora canephoros bearer of the round basket containing the implements of sacrifice, in the processions of the Panathenea. Catalogue of ex-votos of the Parthenon.
Athenian coins.
Coins of Athens. The sarcophagus of Boutos, priest of Athena and Poseidon, discovered in Erechtheion. Altar of Demeter and Persephone dedicated by Phavios, torch-bearer at the Eleusinian mysteries.
Northeast view of the Erechtheion.
View of the Erechtheion. Workmen excavating to reveal the base of the prostasis underneath the Caryatids. Ottoman official Dizdar Aǧa is leaning on his son-in-law's shoulder while two other Ottomans are supervising the excavations in order to keep him informed and to ensure that the British are not carrying away the archaeological findings. On the foreground a man, probably James Stuart, drawing the monument.
Plan of the Erechtheion.
Erechtheion: The elevation of the Portico.
The Base, Capital and Entablature of the Erechtheum, with the Capital and Base of the Antae of the Portico.
Erechtheion: The plan reversed, and Sections of the Capital.
Erechtheion: Elevation of the north side.