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REMAINS IN ATTICA,
MEGARA AND EPIRUS.
PLATE XXXIV. PARTS, CHIEFLY OF DOORWAYS AND WINDOWS.
The items on this Plate are Athenian, except those numbered 2 and 3, which are placed over a
doorway in the court of the monastery of Syriani on Mount Hymettus. Those with the numbers
1 . 5 . 8 are built up in the walls of the church of Panaghia Gorgopiko, in the court of which is the
house of the bishop at Athens: a church in great part raised of beautiful fragments of ancient
sculpture and architecture. Number 4 forms part of the paving before the cill of the door of a
Greek church in the thickly inhabited part of the north side of Athens; but this entrance being
but very little used, the moldings and roses appear scarcely injured by the feet treading over them.
6 . 7 were in two different walls in a narrow street on the north side of Athens near the Acro-
polis. Of these it must generally be noticed they are from slight sketches made on passing and
seeing the several fragments, which were often either below the convenient reach of close obser-
vation, or too high to be correctly understood, and are not in any relative proportion of scale to
the originals.
The upper ornament is of beautiful carving, and is a most interesting relic of Athenian deco-
ration of a pediment, the sima not being introduced; but a large centre acroterion and smaller
ones tastefully combining with and terminating the fillet at the lower angles; and a portion of
building, in some resemblance to an attic, forming a ground at the back, crowned by a roof cornice
with dentils. A section is placed at the side, as is also indicated to most of the other instances.
Of the two fragments underneath it is perhaps, as in many others, not evident to what parts of a
building they belonged,' from merely seeing the surface in the wall: it is often by examining
their relative thickness and mode of construction by which they have been fixed, that their situa-
tion becomes evident. Perhaps 2 belonged to a frieze, and 3 part of a corona or of a ceiling;
4 seems to have been an elegant architrave of a small door or window; 5 is an unique instance of
choragic frieze with triglyphs, imitative of the straps and buckles of those that won in the games.
6 .7 appear to have been coronae of cornices, and 8 seems to have been a small nearly blank
window ; four diagonal squares only being perforated.
REMAINS IN ATTICA,
MEGARA AND EPIRUS.
PLATE XXXIV. PARTS, CHIEFLY OF DOORWAYS AND WINDOWS.
The items on this Plate are Athenian, except those numbered 2 and 3, which are placed over a
doorway in the court of the monastery of Syriani on Mount Hymettus. Those with the numbers
1 . 5 . 8 are built up in the walls of the church of Panaghia Gorgopiko, in the court of which is the
house of the bishop at Athens: a church in great part raised of beautiful fragments of ancient
sculpture and architecture. Number 4 forms part of the paving before the cill of the door of a
Greek church in the thickly inhabited part of the north side of Athens; but this entrance being
but very little used, the moldings and roses appear scarcely injured by the feet treading over them.
6 . 7 were in two different walls in a narrow street on the north side of Athens near the Acro-
polis. Of these it must generally be noticed they are from slight sketches made on passing and
seeing the several fragments, which were often either below the convenient reach of close obser-
vation, or too high to be correctly understood, and are not in any relative proportion of scale to
the originals.
The upper ornament is of beautiful carving, and is a most interesting relic of Athenian deco-
ration of a pediment, the sima not being introduced; but a large centre acroterion and smaller
ones tastefully combining with and terminating the fillet at the lower angles; and a portion of
building, in some resemblance to an attic, forming a ground at the back, crowned by a roof cornice
with dentils. A section is placed at the side, as is also indicated to most of the other instances.
Of the two fragments underneath it is perhaps, as in many others, not evident to what parts of a
building they belonged,' from merely seeing the surface in the wall: it is often by examining
their relative thickness and mode of construction by which they have been fixed, that their situa-
tion becomes evident. Perhaps 2 belonged to a frieze, and 3 part of a corona or of a ceiling;
4 seems to have been an elegant architrave of a small door or window; 5 is an unique instance of
choragic frieze with triglyphs, imitative of the straps and buckles of those that won in the games.
6 .7 appear to have been coronae of cornices, and 8 seems to have been a small nearly blank
window ; four diagonal squares only being perforated.