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ANOTHER SECTION OF THE FRIEZE OF THE PARTHENON 



The frieze was cut round the top of the solid structure ' inside the columns and was 

 meant to look like a procession passing along on high. It still has this appearance to a 

 person walking some distance away, being carved in deeper relief at the top than at the 

 bottom. The horses' feet, for instance, project about an inch and a half, while their heads 

 extend about two inches. 



GUARDING GRECIAN ANTIQUITIES 



The Greek government is keenly alive 

 to its responsibility for the safeguarding 

 of its antiquities, and the Department of 

 Archaeology, under the charge of the 

 Ministry of Education and Religion, is 

 painstakingly organized and prudently 

 administered. Its income — derived for 

 the most part from the revenues of the 

 lottery, which it shares with the fleet — is 

 never diverted, no matter how dire the 

 necessities of the treasury ; and the zeal- 

 ous scholars who now direct its energies 

 have many a good work of excavation 

 and restoration to their credit. The mu- 

 seums at Athens are handsomely housed, 

 conveniently arranged, accurately cata- 

 logued, and open to inspection and study 

 without fee, this latter being a point of 

 great pride with Athenians. 



In addition there are now, at various 

 points in the kingdom where research is 

 going on, smaller museums devoted to 

 the preservation of the treasures of the 

 locality, which are no longer taken to 

 Athens to enrich the collections there, 

 and if found there at all are in replica 

 only and then solely of the most notable; 

 as in the case of the bronze charioteer of 

 Delphi, whose counterfeit representation 

 in plaster at Athens has sent many a 

 traveler across the waters of the Corin- 

 thian Gulf in search of the wonderful 

 original. 



Crowning the city, from Pericles to 

 Venizelos, stands the sheer and mighty 

 rock of the Acropolis, dominated by the 

 Parthenon, matchless even in its ruins, 

 which projects the changeless purity of 

 its lines against the background of the 



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