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Themis at Rhamnus, which gives an excellent example of an ancient Greek temple of polygonal masonry, to which parastades (p) in hewn stone have been added, probably at some later date, certainly in a later style. It is to be found in the volume of the unedited antiquities of Attica published by the Dilettanti Society in 1817, Chapter VII., plate 1, where the difference of masonry is carefully distinguished, and certainly appears to be a subsequent addition.
It could not be ascertained whether there have been, between the parastades of the temple A, wooden columns such as we are led to expect, with a span exceeding 10 mètres, for we could not find the particular foundation. stones on which they ought to have stood. I may say the same of any columns which may have stood in the interior to diminish the great span of the roof.
copper in the gates of Babylon: (
Greek characters). The doorposts are likewise called (Greek characters) in Homer, Odyssey, VII. 89; Scholiast, (Greek characters). Αnecd. Bachm. I. 369, 21, (Greek characters). Hesychius, (Greek characters). Εtym. Μ. 609, 34, (Greek characters). Zonaras, Lex. p. 1814, (Greek characters). Apion, Gloss. Homer, (Greek characters), and Schol. Lycophr. Alexandra, v. 290, (Greek characters).