A description of the East, and some other countries (1743) (14773386255)

Identifier: gri_33125009339611 (find matches)
Title: A description of the East, and some other countries
Year: 1743 (1740s)
Authors: Pococke, Richard, 1704-1765 Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810
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Publisher: London : Printed for the author, by W. Bowyer : And sold by J. and P. Knapton, W. Innys, W. Meadows, G. Hawkins, S. Birt, T. Longman, C. Hitch, R. Dodsley, J. Nourse, and J. Rivington
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ON GREECE. 165 Further to the eaft, at the fouth eaft corner of the hill, is that curious» r , i^antem or fmall building G, commonly called the lantern of Demofthenes; but itDtmoflhe-is faid to be a temple of Hercules, built in all probability on the occa-^fion of the vlftory of the tribe Acamantis, when Euainetus was archon,which was in the hundred and eleventh Olympiad, that is, in the fourhundred and eighteenth year of Rome, as appeared by an infcription onthe architrave now defaced or hid, the convent of the Capuchins being ,built round the greater part of it; this circular building is of the Co- ,rinthian order fluted, having fix pillars round it, as in the feventy-firft .plate ; A, being the plan : There are two tripodes cUt between the pil- .lars in bas relief; from thefe to the folid bafemenc the wall between them .conflfls of one ftone ; the architrave and frieze alfo all round are of one ■flone in depth; the cornifli is compofed ot feven ftones, and the whole ^ is crowned