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tique votive tablets, with sculpture and
inscriptions. A complete series has also
been formed of capitals, of the only three
orders known in Greece, the Doric, the
Ionic, and the Corinthian ; from the ear-
liest dawn of art in Athens, to its zenith
under Pericles; and, from thence, through
all its degradations, to the dark ages of
the lower empire.
- At a convent called Daphne, about
half way between Athens and Eleusis,
were the remains of an Ionic temple of
Venus, equally remarkable for the bril-
liancy of the marble, the bold style of the
ornaments, the delicacy with which they
are finished, and their high preservation.
Lord Elgin procured from thence two,
of the capitals, a whole fluted column,
and a base.
- Lord Elgin was indebted chiefly to the
friendship of the Captain Pacha, for the
good fortune of procuring, while at the
Dardanelles, in his way to Constanti»
tique votive tablets, with sculpture and
inscriptions. A complete series has also
been formed of capitals, of the only three
orders known in Greece, the Doric, the
Ionic, and the Corinthian ; from the ear-
liest dawn of art in Athens, to its zenith
under Pericles; and, from thence, through
all its degradations, to the dark ages of
the lower empire.
- At a convent called Daphne, about
half way between Athens and Eleusis,
were the remains of an Ionic temple of
Venus, equally remarkable for the bril-
liancy of the marble, the bold style of the
ornaments, the delicacy with which they
are finished, and their high preservation.
Lord Elgin procured from thence two,
of the capitals, a whole fluted column,
and a base.
- Lord Elgin was indebted chiefly to the
friendship of the Captain Pacha, for the
good fortune of procuring, while at the
Dardanelles, in his way to Constanti»