GREECE Athens Horologium Lysicrates Monument Lord Byron's Residence

Description: Print Specifics: Type of print: Intaglio, steel engraving - SCARCE original antique print (Both images printed on one sheet of paper as shown.) Year of printing: not indicated in the print, actual: 1857 Publisher: Dr. E.A. Menzel, Osterreichischen Lloyd, Triest Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Few minor spots, mostly in blank margins. Dimensions: 8 x 10.5 inches (20 x 26.5 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image.Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)Reverse side: BlankNotes: 1. Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. Print detail is much sharper than the photo of the print. Narrative: Tower of the Winds, Athens (top), Monument of Lysicrates, Athens (bottom) with the Residence of Lord Byron during His Stay in Athens (Behind the tower) Tower of the Winds, also called HOROLOGIUM, Greek HOROLOGION ("Timepiece"), building in Athens erected about 100-50 BC by Andronicus of Cyrrhus for measuring time. Still standing, it is an octagonal marble structure, 42 feet high and 26 feet in diameter. The building's eight sides, which face points of the compass, are decorated with a frieze of figures in relief representing the winds; below it, on the sides facing the sun, are the lines of a sundial. The Horologium was surmounted by a weathervane in the form of a bronze Triton and contained a water clock (clepsydra) to record the time when the sun was not shining. Monument of Lysicrates: Of the numerous monuments which anciently served, like that of Thrasyllus, to support tripods, there is another which has been preserved, though in a greatly mutilated condition. It is an elegant circular edifice situated at the foot of the Acropolis, to the south-east, sideways from the Theater of Dionysos. An inscription on the architrave informs us that Lyskrates of Kikynna, son of Lysiteides, had brought to the festival of Bacchus at Athens a chorus of boys trained at his own expense, and with it had carried off, during the archonship of Euainetos (335 B.C.), the prize given in the musical competition, a brazen tripod. The vertical structure of the monument consists of three main parts: the quadrangular basement, the central circular building with its six semi-columns, and the richly decorated crowning piece on which the tripod formerly rested. The long stone blocks forming the cube are separated by smooth channelled rims, and have rough surfaces. The topmost slab of the substructure consists of a single piece of mottled Hymettus marble. The whole of the circular building, together with its crowning ornament, is built of Pentelic marble. The six semi-columns have strictly round shafts; only the intervals between them are filled in by great stone plates; the capital even, on the inner side, is worked in the rough. The architrave and frieze together, forming as it were a ring, are in one block; the cornice is in six pieces, and the dome-shaped roof again is made out of a single stone. The appearance of the monument as viewed in perspective is entirely different from that of the geometric elevation. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

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