Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 1) (London, 1892)

PART III.

THE SUCCESSORS OF PHEIDIAS.

SCULPTURES OF THE TEMPLE CALLED
THE THESEION.

The building which is commonly known as the Temple
of Theseus, or Theseion, stands about a quarter of a mile
to the north-west of the Acropolis of Athens.

The temple is of the kind called peripteral Jiexastyle.

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Fig. 15.- Flan of the Thf-seion. (From Baumeister )

Round the cella, or central chamber, is a single row of
columns, thirty-four in number, of which there are six at
each end. The order is Doric, with a frieze peculiarly
arranged. On the eastern front are ten sculptured me-
topes, and there are four on each of the adjacent sides,
making a total of eighteen sculptured metopes. The
remaining metopes of the temple, fifty in number, are
plain slabs, which may possibly have had painted on them