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had no trouble in making out or 

 recognising the two next, which 

 are the hist on that side ; it is the 

 Emperor Hadrian sitting, and 

 half naked, and, next to him, his 

 wife Sabina. It seems that they 

 are both looking on with plea- 

 siu'e at the triumph of the god- 

 dess. 1 do not believe that be- 

 fore me, any person observed this 

 particularity, which deserves to 

 be remarked." " On the left of 

 Jupiter are five or six figures, of 

 which some have lost the heads ; 

 it is probably the circle of the 

 gods, where Jupiter is about to 

 introduce Minerva, and to make 

 her be acknowledged for his 

 daughter. The pediment behind 

 represented, accoiding to the 

 same author, the dispute which 

 Miner\a and Neptune had for 

 naming tho city, but all the 

 figures are fallen from them, ex- 

 cept one head of a sea-horse, 

 which was the usual accompani- 

 ment of this god ; these figures 

 of the two pedimciits weje not 

 so ancient as the body of the 

 temi)le built by Pericles, for 

 which there wants no other argu- 

 ment than that, of the statue cf 

 Hadrian, which is to be seen 

 there, and the marble which is 

 whiter than the rest. All the rest 

 has not been touched The Mar- 

 quis de Nointel had designs made 

 of the whole, when he went to 

 Athens ; his painter worked there 

 for two months, and almost lost 

 his eves, because he was obliged 

 to draw every thing fi'om below, 

 without a scaffold." — \'i:'yage par 

 Jacob Spon ; Lyons, 1678 ; 2 

 toil), p. 144.) 



Wl'eler, who travelled with 

 Spon, and plibiished his work !>t 

 London (four j ears later) in 1(382, 



says, " But my companion made 

 me observe the next two figures 

 sitting in the corner to be of the 

 Emperor Hadrian and his Em- 

 press Sabina, w horn 1 easily knew 

 to be so, by the many medals and 

 statues I have seen of them." 

 And again, "But the Emperor 

 Hadrian most j)robabiy repaired 

 it, and adorned it with those 

 fio-ures at each fiont. For tlie 

 whiteness of the marble, and his 

 own statue joined with them, ap- 

 parently show them to be of a 

 later age than the first, and done 

 by that Empeior's command. 

 Within the portico on high, and 

 on the outside of the cella of the 

 the temple itself, is another bor- 

 der of baeso relievo round about 

 it, or at least on the north and 

 south sides, which, without doubt, 

 is as antient as the temple, and 

 of admirable . work, but not so 

 high a relievo as the other. Tliere- 

 on are represented sacrifices, pro- 

 cessions, and other ceremonies of 

 the heathens' woi ship ; most of 

 them wete designed by iheMarcjuis 

 de Nointel, whoemployed apainter 

 to do it two months together, and 

 showed theni to us wlien we 

 waited on him at Constantinople." 

 Another French author, who pub- 

 lished three years earlier thanSpon, 

 a work called " Athenes Ancienne 

 & Nouvelle, par le S'^ de la Guil- 

 k'tiere ; ii Paris, 16"75," — says, 

 " Pc-ricles enjployed upon the 

 P.uthenon the celebrated arclii- 

 tects Callicrates and Ictinus. 'I'he 

 last, who had more reputation 

 than the former, wrote a de-crip- 

 tion of it in a i'ook,^'' wliicli he 



* Ictinus and Cai-])ion were jointly con- 

 cerned in this work, lor wliicii we Imve the 

 authority of Vitruvius, lib. 7. praefat. 



composed 



