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Temple of Athena Polias in Priene: Architectural features such as base of column, capital, helix, cymatium and others, (shaded drawing). Fig. I: A square Base, with the lower part of a Column, found near each other, by the South East angle of the Temple. Fig. II: One of the Fronts of a Square Capital, which has four faces, and a Plinth upon the Abacus. A Section through the Stems of the Volutes, in front of the Capital. Fig. III: The Semi-profile of the same Capital. Fig. IV: A Section through the Cymatium of the Architrave. Fig. V: A Fragment of the Lacunaria...Fig. VI: The Cornice, which belonged to the Peristyle within the Peribolus. Fig.VII: A Section through an Architrave, belonging to the same Entablature as the above Cornice did, and found near it, among the ruins at the front of the Peribolus.

Alternative Title

The Contents of the foregoing Plate shaded.

Date

1769

Bibliographic Citation

Society of Dilettanti. Ionian Antiquities published with Permission of the Society of Dilettanti, by R. Chandler, M.A. F.S.A. N. Revett, Architect; W. Pars, Painter, London, For T. Spilsbury and W. Haskell, MDCCLXIX [=1769].

Table Of Contents

13, IX

Area/Place

Priene
Asia Minor
Turkey

Subject

Architecture and built environment
Art and antiquities

Collection

Hellenic Library - Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation

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