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THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS
one behind each corner column, which supported the ceiling
and the roof. The smaller southern porch was enclosed by
a parapet about six feet high, from the floor level of the
interior, upon which stood six sculptured figures of " maidens "
(jcopai), as they are styled in the inventory, though the later
term caryatids is also applied to them. These figures carried
the ceiling and the roof. Four of them stand at the front
of the porch and one behind each of the corner caryatids,
an arrangement, it will be observed, corresponding to that
Fig. 89.—Exterior of South Wall of Erechtheum.
of the columns of the north portico. The original appear-
ance of the west front of the temple suffered much change.
The older drawings and engravings, such as those of Dalton
and Stuart, show four half columns built into a wall bounded
by two antae and pierced by three small windows, the
southernmost intercolumniation being left free. These columns
and this wall have recently been restored. But from the
character of the masonry, there is reason to believe that
these half-columns and windows date from the Roman period,
and that the building had originally a west front of four
Ionic columns standing on a low wall, and that the four
THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS
one behind each corner column, which supported the ceiling
and the roof. The smaller southern porch was enclosed by
a parapet about six feet high, from the floor level of the
interior, upon which stood six sculptured figures of " maidens "
(jcopai), as they are styled in the inventory, though the later
term caryatids is also applied to them. These figures carried
the ceiling and the roof. Four of them stand at the front
of the porch and one behind each of the corner caryatids,
an arrangement, it will be observed, corresponding to that
Fig. 89.—Exterior of South Wall of Erechtheum.
of the columns of the north portico. The original appear-
ance of the west front of the temple suffered much change.
The older drawings and engravings, such as those of Dalton
and Stuart, show four half columns built into a wall bounded
by two antae and pierced by three small windows, the
southernmost intercolumniation being left free. These columns
and this wall have recently been restored. But from the
character of the masonry, there is reason to believe that
these half-columns and windows date from the Roman period,
and that the building had originally a west front of four
Ionic columns standing on a low wall, and that the four