Burrow, Edward John: The Elgin Marbles: With an abridged historical and topographical account of Athens (London, 1837)

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south side was fortified in the fifth century
A. C. by Cimon. The level area on the sum-
mit of the rock measures, at its extreme length
from west to south-east, about eleven hun-
dred and twenty feet; at its greatest width
from north to south, about five hundred; and
we may suppose the circuit of the Pelasgic and
southern walls to have been about six stadia
or furlongs. We are told that there were origi-
nally nine gates, but the great entrance to the
inclosed space upon the top was through the
five doors of the Propylaea.

In front of the southern wing of the Pro-
pylaea stood, at the time Spon and Wheler vi-
sited Athens, a very small Ionic temple, not Temple of
above fifteen feet in length, of white marble,
with channeled pillars,and a frize sculptured in
bas-relief. Of four blocks of this frize designs
and a description will be given ; and it is only
requisite here to ascertain, as well as may be,
the true dedication of the temple which they
adorned. Nothing now remains, but a mass
of rubbish and disconnected blocks of marble,
to determine the question of identity; but,
upon the whole, it appears most consonant
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