Erechthion

Erechthion

ca. 421-406 BCE

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visual works

Greece (nation)

Athens (inhabited place)

Classical

temples (buildings)

architectural drawings (visual works)

Reconstruction drawing of the Erechtheum in Athens, Greece. Printed at top of page: "Monuments antiques." "Eastern part of the building is a hexastyle prostyle pronaos to a cella with windows on either side of the door which opens east. Western part of the building is a cella with a floor 3 meters lower than the eastern section but with identical ceiling height. Western cella has 3 entrances. On the north of the western cella, a great door and step lead to the lower Ionic prostyle tetrastyle porch of 6 columns. East of this north doorway, an underground opening leads to a crypt under the north porch with a den for snakes. On the south of the western cella, an L- shaped staircase leads to the higher Porch of the Maidens (Caryatid Porch), a prostyle tetrastyle porch having 6 caryatids as roof supports, all facing south and standing on a low wall. The only entrance to Porch of the Maidens is a stairway leading up from western cella. On the west end of the western cella, a door and step lead to the walled open air Sanctuary of Pandrosos. At the 2nd story level, the outside west wall of the western cella has an engaged base molding with 4 engaged pilasters topped by Ionic columns, spaces between the columns were of open grillwork; thus, from the outside, the western facade gives the appearance of having a floor at the same level as the eastern cella,"--Perseus Digital Library.

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