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Reconstruction of the interior of the Tower of the Winds in Athens. Details of antiquities.

Architectural features of the Erechtheion.

Helix of Ionian capital from the Temple of Athena Nike.

Anthemion (palmette) from the Parthenon. Fragment from an Athenian house. Fragment of Corinthian capital from the Acropolis.

Sima and other roof ornaments inserted in Athenian houses.

Angular acroterion, found by Inwood in the court of a church near Areopagus.

Acroteria from ancient monuments.

Reconstruction of architectural features based on marble fragments.

Funerary chambers on the slopes of Philopappos hill and Athenian vases.

Architectural features inlaid in the walls of the church of Panagia Gorgoepikoos and other churches in Athens.

View and plan of the fortress of Aigosthena (Porto Germeno).

Corinthian capital from Actia Nicopolis.

View of the Great Monastery of Meteora, from the Monastery of Barlaam, with river Peneus in the distance.

Interior of the court of a Greek monastery.

Monastery of St. Paul, on Mount Athos.

Interior of an Abyssinian library, in the Monastery of Souriani on the Natron Lakes.

Plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem.

Plan of the chapel of the Monastery of Virgin Mary (Deir al-Adra) in Minya, Egypt.

View of the monastery of St. Barlaam, at Meteora.

Plan of the chapel at Varlaam Monastery, Meteora.

Plan of the refectory at the Grand Meteoro Monastery.

The north-west side of the Promontory of Mount Athos, with a view of the Monastery of Stavroniketa, taken from the Monastery of Pantokratoras.

Porch in the Byzantine style, consisting of four marble columns supporting a dome, in front of the entrance of St. Laura monastery.

Plan of the refectory at the Monastery of Great Lavra.

View of the Monastery and Aqueduct of Simopetra, on Mount Athos, taken from the sea-shore.

The Choregic Monument of Lysicrates in the court of the Capucine convent in Athens.

The strait of Euripus in Euboea.

The Citadel of Qaitbay, (built on the site of the Lighthouse of Alexandria.)

The Acropolis, from the north-west.

View of Athens from the southeast (before 1834).