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THE ERECTHEIUM AND PANDROSOS. 37
part of the important remains of this edifice now
preserved in the Elgin collection; they are num-
bered No. 125, 126, 127. There are likewise three
other pieces of shafts of columns, No. 110, 114,
118; a portion of the cornice from the portico, No.
289; two pieces of the architrave, No. 219, 220; a
piece of the ceiling of the temple, No. 108 ; and four
pieces of the frieze, enriched with flowers and other
ornaments, designed with the most perfect taste, and
chiseled with a degree of sharpness and precision
truly admirable, No. 252—255 *.
The little temple of Pandrosos, which adjoined the
temple of Polias, has its northern portico ornamented
with six Ionic columns, four in front, and one on each
flank; but, instead of Ionic columns to support the
architrave of the southern portico, there were six
female figures called Caryatides ; four iu front,
and one on each flank. Vitruvius says that the Athe-
nians endeavoured, by this device, to perpetuate the
infamy of the inhabitants of Caryaf, who were the
only Peloponnesians who sided with Xerxes in his
invasion of Greece. The men had been reduced to
the deplorable state of Helotes ; and the women not
only condemned to the most servile employments, but
those of rank and family forced, in this abject con-
dition, to wear their antient dresses and ornaments.
Visconti, and some other antiquaries, however, are of
a different opinion; they think that these Caryatides,
* The inscription, alluded to p. 32, is in the Townley Gallery in
we Museum^ and is known by the title of the ' Marmor Atheniense,'
Room iii. No. 26 *. It relates to a survey of a temple at Athens,
lo doubt the Erectheium. It was brought to England by Dr.
Chandler, and presented to the British Museum in 1785, by the
Dilettanti Society. Mr. Wilkins has copied, aud commented
ul>on this inscription in his Atheniensia, 8vo. 1816, p. 193; and
"i an enlarged form in Walpole's Memoirs, relating to European
and Asiatic Turkey, vol. i. p. 580—603.
f.Vitruv. b. i. c. 1.
part of the important remains of this edifice now
preserved in the Elgin collection; they are num-
bered No. 125, 126, 127. There are likewise three
other pieces of shafts of columns, No. 110, 114,
118; a portion of the cornice from the portico, No.
289; two pieces of the architrave, No. 219, 220; a
piece of the ceiling of the temple, No. 108 ; and four
pieces of the frieze, enriched with flowers and other
ornaments, designed with the most perfect taste, and
chiseled with a degree of sharpness and precision
truly admirable, No. 252—255 *.
The little temple of Pandrosos, which adjoined the
temple of Polias, has its northern portico ornamented
with six Ionic columns, four in front, and one on each
flank; but, instead of Ionic columns to support the
architrave of the southern portico, there were six
female figures called Caryatides ; four iu front,
and one on each flank. Vitruvius says that the Athe-
nians endeavoured, by this device, to perpetuate the
infamy of the inhabitants of Caryaf, who were the
only Peloponnesians who sided with Xerxes in his
invasion of Greece. The men had been reduced to
the deplorable state of Helotes ; and the women not
only condemned to the most servile employments, but
those of rank and family forced, in this abject con-
dition, to wear their antient dresses and ornaments.
Visconti, and some other antiquaries, however, are of
a different opinion; they think that these Caryatides,
* The inscription, alluded to p. 32, is in the Townley Gallery in
we Museum^ and is known by the title of the ' Marmor Atheniense,'
Room iii. No. 26 *. It relates to a survey of a temple at Athens,
lo doubt the Erectheium. It was brought to England by Dr.
Chandler, and presented to the British Museum in 1785, by the
Dilettanti Society. Mr. Wilkins has copied, aud commented
ul>on this inscription in his Atheniensia, 8vo. 1816, p. 193; and
"i an enlarged form in Walpole's Memoirs, relating to European
and Asiatic Turkey, vol. i. p. 580—603.
f.Vitruv. b. i. c. 1.