ATHENS. 246 
as of a triple, but as of a duple form 5 ; and in the 
succeeding chapter he mentions the two parts 
of which it consisted, naming them the Temples 
of Pandrosus and Minerva 6 . The sepulchral 
origin of the Parthenon, as of all the Athenian 
temples, has been already proved; and the same 
historian who has preserved a record of the 
situation of the sepulchre ofCecrops also informs us 
that the tomb of Ericthonius existed in the Temple 
of Minerva Polias 7 . The Turks had made a 
powder-magazine of one of the vestibules of this 
building; so that it was necessary to creep 
through a hole in the wall in order to see the 
finest specimen of Ionic architecture now exist- 
ing: it was an inner door of one of the temples; 
and it has been judiciously remarked 8 of the 
sculpture everywhere displayed in this edifice, 
that " it is difficult to conceive how marble has 
been wrought to such a depth and brought to so 
(5) K) S/TXwv ya.f fffn re uxtipia. Ibid. 
(6) Tu tasy Si TJ 'A&jvS; Uf^aorav j <rvn%ris Ifri. Ibid. C. 27. p. 64,. 
Lips. 1696. 
(7) * A.(ntr,fi St iv ax!rXv, Ktxg!Tej, U( <ffir 'AvTic%e( It ra luaLrta run 
Irvtpuv' ri SaJ 'E^tufejutf ; oi>%i it TM tltf rtjs n*.ia$ts KiKf^turaj. " Athenis 
autem in ips& pariter Acropoli, Cecropis, ut Antiochus Historiarum 
nono scriptum reliquit. Quid porrt) Ericthonius ? nonne in Poliadis 
templo sepultus est?" Clemcntis Alexandrini Cohortatio ad Gentfs, 
torn. I. p. 39. Oxon. 1715. 
(8) Memorandum, &c. p. 24,. Loud. 1&I1. 
