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THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS
Lycius of Eleutherae, son of Myron, made [this statue]." But
this inscription reads a different way up on the two sides of
the slab (Fig. 121). From these facts it appears that the
statue which stood on this slab was at some time taken down,
the slab reversed, a different statue later placed on it, and the
Fig. I2i.—Inscribed Pedestal on Wall flanking Stairway of Propylaea.
same inscription was carved, the other way up, on the side
opposite to that which bore the original inscription. The
original statues cannot have been set up on this site later than
437 B.C., about the time when the Propylaea was begun, since
the two pedestals which supported them form integral parts of
the coping of the walls. But that this is not the original site
of these statues has been shown by Lolling (177), who believes
that they stood first on the slope of the Acropolis and were
THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS
Lycius of Eleutherae, son of Myron, made [this statue]." But
this inscription reads a different way up on the two sides of
the slab (Fig. 121). From these facts it appears that the
statue which stood on this slab was at some time taken down,
the slab reversed, a different statue later placed on it, and the
Fig. I2i.—Inscribed Pedestal on Wall flanking Stairway of Propylaea.
same inscription was carved, the other way up, on the side
opposite to that which bore the original inscription. The
original statues cannot have been set up on this site later than
437 B.C., about the time when the Propylaea was begun, since
the two pedestals which supported them form integral parts of
the coping of the walls. But that this is not the original site
of these statues has been shown by Lolling (177), who believes
that they stood first on the slope of the Acropolis and were