Architecture; Buildings; Social & civic facilities; Government facilities; Courthouses; Justice facilities; Shrines; Temples; Altars; Religious facilities; Streets; Roads; Hills; Plans; Drawings; Reconstructions
Includes: Kolonos Agoraios; Altar; Bouleuterion; Royal Stoa; Shrine of Zeus; [?] River; 12 Gods; Eschara; Street of Panathenaia; Lawcourts; S.E. Fountain House; Boundary Stones of Agora; Prytanikon; Temple of [?]; Temple of Apollo; Great Drain.
“The Acropolis about 480 BC. The partly-built earlier temple of Athena stands on the southern edge, with the archaic temple of Athena Polias to the left.“ (caption, p.11)
"Every so often as the excavation continued, one of the workmen would shout: 'Another marble here!' In the end, we found ourselves - entranced and speechless - before a group of sculptures lying side by side: from west to east ([in this...
From Kerameikos, [Athens, Greece]. "Comparison of the head of the kouros from the Sacred Gate with the Dipylon Head leaves virtually no doubt that they were created by the same sculptor about 600 BC. He was the first Athenian marble-carver of...
Architecture; Buildings; Social & civic facilities; Government facilities; Mercantile facilities; Commercial facilities; Markets; Religious facilities; Temples; Hills; Archaeological sites; Ruins; Bird's-eye views; Aerial photographs; Aerial...
"The political, economic and cultural center of the ancient city was created on a level area between the hills of the Acropolis, on the right, and the hill of Kolonos Agoraios (Theseion), on the bottom." (Caption, p. 202)
Watercolor reconstruction of the imposing funerary monuments as depicted a few years after they were excavated, by Angelos Yiallinas. Acropolis and Parthenon in background.
“The andron is roughly 5 by 5.8 metres [meters] (16 1/2 by 19 feet). The raised platform round the edge of the room is 82 centimetres [centimeters] wide, and was painted bright yellow. The platform has space for a maximum of nine couches. There...
