D'Ooge, Martin L.: The Acropolis of Athens (New York, 1908)

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that accordingly the pavement was as much higher as the top
of the controlling courses now lies above the present surface,
and that by raising this surface to this level the steps and the
pavement are in perfect adjustment. In other words, the
present pavement is by so much lower than the original level
as to suffice to make the last half-step a whole one, .and so
stairway and pavement would be in exact correspondence.
From this it would follow, according to Dorpfeld, that the level

Fig. 86.—Bastion of Temple of Wingless-Victory. Steps and Platform.

or surface of the bastion was lowered after the temple had been
built, and that this was done with reference to the Propylaea,
which was a later structure. The latest contribution to this
question is that of A. K6ster(112), who accepts the view of
Dorpfeld as regards the original level of the platform of the
temple and its relation to the stairway, but dissents from his
conclusion that the temple is older than the Propylaea.
Koster, with Wolters, holds that the conclusion of Dorpfeld
is disproved by the fact that the lowest step of the stylobate
of the southwest wing of the Propylaea is of limestone, and