Burrow, Edward John: The Elgin marbles: with an abridged historical and topographical account of Athens (Band 1): Illustrated with forty plates (London, 1817)

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Pericles ; but the building was still incomplete
in the year 4C9 A.C. when a survey of the
unfinished parts was made, and inscribed upon
a stone at present in this country. " These
Temples/' says Stuart, " are now in a very
ruinous condition. Those of Erectheus and
Minerva have at present no roof or covering
of any kind, The wall which separated them,
and that by which the Pronaos, or passage to
the Pandrosium, was parted off from the Tem-
ple of Minerva, are so demolished that hardly
any traces of them remain, except where they
joined the side walls." The intercolumnia-
tions of the Pandroseum have been closed with
masonry; and two of the figures, serving as
columns, have been removed; one of these is
now in England, and of the other no account
has reached us.

Several buildings, of which not one stone
remains upon another, existed, no doubt, in
the Acropolis during the period at which this
celebrated spot was thronged with statues of
gods and heroes, and with temples, more or
less superb, dedicated to the heathen deities.