[123]. Beule’s excavations have proved that the outer gate of the Acropolis was in front, not at the side, as here shown. ‘Acropole d’Athènes.’ Paris, vol. i. pl. i. and ii.
[124]. For details of this see Bötticher, ‘Baumkultus der Hellenen.’ Berlin, 1856.
[125]. Pausanias, ix. 38.
[126]. It appears that on the back of the stones laid in horizontal courses were others of great size piled on the top.
[127]. The same scroll exists at New Grange in Ireland, in the Island of Gozo near Malta, and generally wherever chambered tumuli are found.
[128]. A cast of these is to be found in the South Kensington Museum.
[129]. These antæ (parastades) or responds were destined in the first case to protect the angles of the wall, and in the second case to support the beams carried by them and the columns between, the sun-dried brick wall being not to be relied on; in the later Greek temples the walls were built in stone and marble, and the parastades became therefore no longer constructional necessities, being retained only as decorative features, of which so many others are found in the style.
[130]. Pausanias, vi. 19.
[131]. The dimensions are 94 feet by 45, covering consequently only 4230 feet.
[132]. This refers only to the columns and antæ; the lower portion of the walls, 3 feet 6 inches high, were in stone; above this clay bricks were employed in building the walls, and it was to the disintegration of these that we owe the preservation of the Hermes of Praxiteles, which was found embedded in a thick layer of clay. At first it was thought that this clay had been washed down from the neighbouring slopes of the hill of Kronos.