Word: cellar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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FONND.- In the cellar of Thayer, a silk umbrella. Address 23 Thayer...
FOUND.- In the cellar of Thayer, a silk umbrella. Address 23 Thayer...
After describing the architrave, metopes, triglyphs and frieze, Dr. Wheeler touched upon the peculiar feature of the architecture of the temple known as the horizontal curves. The cellar is raised two steps above the floor of the outer colonnade. Above the columns of the cellar the ordinary plain architrave is found, but rising above this is a continuous frieze, unbroken by metopes. This frieze is sculptured along its entire length...
...cellar is divided into four compartments-the Pronaos, the Hekatompedos, the Parthenon, and the Opisthodomos. The interior arrangements of each of these apartments were described with considerable care. We do not know much of their decorations. There is good reason to believe, however, that in the Hekatompedos draperies were extensively used in the decoration...
...western part of the cellar contained the Parthenon and the Opisthodomos. Here was the state treasury and civic offices, The treasury was in charge of two boards of officers-a religious and a secular board...