Height, 10⅛ inches; breadth, 10⅛ inches. Synopsis, No. 365 (243); Stuart, III., ch. I., pl. 8, fig. 2.
2. Similar to last.
Height, 10⅛ inches; breadth, 9⅞ inches. Synopsis, No. 367 (254); Stuart, III., ch. I., pl. 8, fig. 2.
THE ERECHTHEION.
The Erechtheion is an Ionic temple of a peculiar form, which stands near the north side of the Acropolis of Athens. It embodies in a structure of the end of the fifth century the shrines about which the Athenian religion had centred from time immemorial, and to this fact the anomalous character of the plan must be ascribed.
The building consisted of a central cella divided into three portions, and having a portico of six columns at the east end; a porch of six columns at the north-west corner; and a porch of Caryatids at the south-west. It was built of Pentelic marble, with the exception of the frieze, which had a ground of dark Eleusinian marble.
The temple is known to have been incomplete in 409 b.c. At this time a minute survey of the building was made, by order of the Assembly, and the result was recorded in an inscription which is now in the British Museum. (C. I. G. 160; Newton & Hicks, Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus., xxxv.).
Fig. 18.—Ground Plan of the Erechtheion.