Memorandum on the subject of the Earl of Elgin's pursuits in Greece (London, 1811)

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façade was represented the Birth of Minerva; and,
òri that to the east, the Contest between Minerva
and Neptüiie for naming the city. After describing
thé statue of the Goddess, which was öf ivory and!
gold, he adds*—" The only statue of à man whicS
" I saw here [hravSa] was one of Hadriahv"t

A few words may be necessary, ùpofi thé sub-
ject of the sculptures on the exterior of thé
Parthenon^

The practice bad obtained anion g the sculptora
and architects of Greece, in a very early period of
the aft, of introducing groups of statues tò occupy1
the »«!«►, or triangular space above the porticoes of
the temples.

The description in Diodorus Siculus of the*
sculptures on the pediment of the Temple of Ju-
piter at Agrigeiitüm, representing at one extremity1
the Battle óf the Giants> and at the other the
Taking of Troy—the Twelve Labours of Hercùïesj

* " T^iy ös 7i ysvsp&ai iravdwpav, an jjv to yovautuii yivoç-i—
hrav-Sct. iixófa iiïav oiöa. Aoçiavè ßao-fosai; jùóVs."

To this passage it inäy probably be attributed, that some
modem travellers, who had no means of viewing the statues' but1
from the ground, and, of course, from a considerable distance,
have imagined that two of them, on the western pediment, were
whiter and fresher than the rest, and bore a resemblance to
Hadrian and Sabina.

t Vide Pansan. in Art.

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