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- The Erechtheion (/ɪˈrɛkθiən/, latinized as Erechtheum /ɪˈrɛkθiəm, ˌɛrɪkˈθiːəm/; Ancient Gr****: Ἐρέχθειον, Gr****: Ερέχθειο) or Temple of Athena Polias is...
- of the Turkish army, the Parthenon was converted into a mosque and the Erechtheum was turned into the governor's private harem. The buildings of the Acropolis...
- Ionic mode to be seen on the Athenian Acropolis is exemplified in the Erechtheum. Following the conquests of Alexander the Great in the east, a few examples...
- Constantine Trypanis, "...the carved details on the five the caryatids of the Erechtheum had seriously degenerated, while the face of the horseman on the Parthenon's...
- sculptures from the Parthenon, as well as sculptures from the Propylaea and Erechtheum. The former director of the museum has stated, "We are indebted to Elgin...
- Achaemenid frieze designs at ****polis. Gr**** friezes Ionic frieze of the Erechtheum (Athens), 421–406 BCE Top: Kyanos frieze from Tiryns. Bottom: Frieze of...
- stele or vertical tombstones, the necking of the Ionic columns of the Erechtheum and its continuation as a decorative frieze on the walls of the same,...
- papyrus fragment. They demonstrate for Burkert that "the founding of the Erechtheum and the institution of the priestess of Athena coincide." Athena resolves...
- architecture are the Parthenon and the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, and the Erechtheum, next to the Parthenon, is Ionic. By AD 211, with Caracalla's edict known...
- temples, such as the prostyle porch of the sanctuary of Athena on the Erechtheum, at the Acropolis of Athens. With the colonization by the Gr****s of Southern...