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the Earl of Elgin’s Collection of Marbles, €s’c. 279 
the circle of the gods, where Jupiter is about to introduce Mi- 
nerva, and to make her be acknowledged for his daughter.’ The 
pediment behind represented, according to the same author, the 
dispute’which Minerva and Neptune had for naming the city; but 
all the figures are fallen from them, except one head of a sea- 
horse, which was the usual accompaniment of this god: these 
figures of the two pediments were not so ancient as the body of 
the temple built by Pericles, for which there wants no other ar- 
gument than that of the statue of Hadrian, which is to be scen 
there, and the marble which is whiter than the rest. All the 
rest has not been touched. The Marquis de Nointel had de- 
signs made of the whole, when he went to Athens; his painter’ 
worked there for two months, and almost lost his eyes, because 
he was obliged to draw every thing from below, without a scaf- 
fold.”’"—( Voyage par Jacob Spon: Lyons, 1678 ; 2 tom. p. 144.) 
Wheler, who travelled with Spon, and published his Work at 
London (fuur years later) in 1682, says, ‘‘ But my companion 
made me observe the next two figures sitting in the cerner to be 
of the emperor Hadrian and his empress Sabina, whom I easily 
knew to be so, by the many medals and statues I have seen of 
them.”” And again, “* But the emperor Hadrian most probably 
repaired it, and adorned it with those figures at each front. For 
the whiteness of the marble, and his own statue joined with 
them, apparently show them to be of a later age than the first, 
and done by that emperor’s command. Within the portico on 
high, and on the outside of the cella of the temple itself, is an- 
other border of basso relievo round about it, or at least on the 
north and south sides, which, without doubt, is as ancient as the 
temple, and of admirable work, but not so high a relievo as the 
other. Thereon are represented sacrifices, processions, and other 
cereinonies of the heathens’ worship ; most of them were designed 
by the Marquis de Nointel, who employed a painter to do it two 
months together, and showed them to us when we waited on him 
at Constantinople.” 
Another French author, who published, three years earlier 
than Spon, a work called “ Athénes Ancienne et Nouvelle, par 
le S' de la Guilletiere & Paris,” 1675,—-says, “Pericles em- 
ployed upon the Parthenon the celebrated architects Callicrates 
and Ictinus, The last, who had more reputation than the 
former, wrote a description of itin a book*, which he com- 
posed on purpose, and which has been Jost; and we should 
probably not now have the opportunity of admiring the building 
itself, if the emperor Hadrian had not preserved it to us, by the 
* Ictinus and Carpion were jointly concerned in this work, for which 
we have the authority of Vitruvius, lil). 7. prefat. 
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