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378 RUIN NEAR THE BAZAR.
of a well built wall with seven plain Corinthian columns detached a
little from it, but supporting an entablature and cornice ornamented
with dentils. These entablatures return over each column and along
the wall, where is the body of the building. They were undoubtedly
designed to support statues like the arches of Septimius Severus and
of Constantine at Rome; on the latter of which the statues still remain
upon the columns. Pausanias1 says there were some bronze statues
before the portico; probably they were upon the columnar pedestals
already noticed, which is perhaps the Poikile restored by the Ro-
mans, since the architecture of the colonnade bears a resemblance to
the style which is seen in the arch of Hadrian. This portico faces
nearly w. n. w. and forms a part of the Voivode's house: at the
southern end is the Greek church of Saint Nicholas, and an insulated
Corinthian column, and at the northern end is the great mosque, an
elegant building, with a lofty minaret, and a broad shallow dome.
The column of the Olympieion, which was thrown down by the Turks,
was used in the construction of this mosque ; and probably great
part of the portico in question was destroyed on the same occasion.
Cornelio Magni, who visited Athens in 1674, and Stuart, assert that
in their time the portico was called by some the Palace of Pericles, and
by others the Palace of Themistocles.
Besides the ruins I have described as within the modern circuit of
Athens, there are other imperfect remains, which are scarcely worth
noticing. Near the monument of Lysikrates are three small Ionic
columns, supposed, but without any plausible reason, to have formed
part of the gymnasium of Hadrian. The following inscriptions were
found in this vicinity, the first of which, though extremely ruined,
seems to have been a Ytipurftx, or decree; the second is probably
sepulchral:—
*->• I.e. 16. AvSptayrke t£ ^ciArai wo'-at ttoo /mv njs crroac.
of a well built wall with seven plain Corinthian columns detached a
little from it, but supporting an entablature and cornice ornamented
with dentils. These entablatures return over each column and along
the wall, where is the body of the building. They were undoubtedly
designed to support statues like the arches of Septimius Severus and
of Constantine at Rome; on the latter of which the statues still remain
upon the columns. Pausanias1 says there were some bronze statues
before the portico; probably they were upon the columnar pedestals
already noticed, which is perhaps the Poikile restored by the Ro-
mans, since the architecture of the colonnade bears a resemblance to
the style which is seen in the arch of Hadrian. This portico faces
nearly w. n. w. and forms a part of the Voivode's house: at the
southern end is the Greek church of Saint Nicholas, and an insulated
Corinthian column, and at the northern end is the great mosque, an
elegant building, with a lofty minaret, and a broad shallow dome.
The column of the Olympieion, which was thrown down by the Turks,
was used in the construction of this mosque ; and probably great
part of the portico in question was destroyed on the same occasion.
Cornelio Magni, who visited Athens in 1674, and Stuart, assert that
in their time the portico was called by some the Palace of Pericles, and
by others the Palace of Themistocles.
Besides the ruins I have described as within the modern circuit of
Athens, there are other imperfect remains, which are scarcely worth
noticing. Near the monument of Lysikrates are three small Ionic
columns, supposed, but without any plausible reason, to have formed
part of the gymnasium of Hadrian. The following inscriptions were
found in this vicinity, the first of which, though extremely ruined,
seems to have been a Ytipurftx, or decree; the second is probably
sepulchral:—
*->• I.e. 16. AvSptayrke t£ ^ciArai wo'-at ttoo /mv njs crroac.