File:Parthenon 2.jpg
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BPLDC no.: 08_04_000418 Page Title: Parthenon Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection Album: Volume 3: Athens. Call no.: 4098B.104 v3 (p. 35) Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn Genre: Scrapbooks Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on page : albumen ; page 33 x 39 cm. Description: Scrapbook page contains lengthy and detailed architectural description of the Parthenon, along with information about its tumultuous history. Transcription: Time of Pericles, date of completion not known perhaps B.C. 393. Used for public worship B.C. 438 at Panathenaean Festival. Phidias supplied exterior ornamentation. It was built of Pentelic marble on a basement o f l i m e s t o n e 2 2 8 f t l o n g & 1 0 1 f t b r o a d . T h e o u t e r f r a m e w o r k s t o o d o n 4 6 D o r i c c o l u m n s o f w h i c h 3 4 w e r e o n t h e s i d e s . T h e c o l u m n s w e r e 3 4 1 / 4 f t h i g h l o w e r d i a m e t e r 6 f t 3 , h i g h e r 4 f t 1 0 . I t s h e i g h t h [ s i c ] t o t o p o f p e d i m e n t w a s 6 6 f e e t . T h e P e d i m e n t s w e r e f i l l e d w i t h c o l o s s a l f i g u r e s o f t h e g o d s & t h r o w n i n t o s t r o n g r e l i e f b y p a i n t e d r e d b a c k g r o u n d A c r o p o l e & B r i t i s h M u s e u m . T h e m o u l d i n g w a s f i l l e d w i t h t r i g l y p h s , c h a n n e l s p a i n t e d b l u e a n d m e t o p e s f i e l d s i n r e d f i g u r e s i n r e l i e f b a t t l e s o f g o d s a n d g i a n t s |
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March 12—March 29, 1893
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William Vaughn Tupper
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File change date and time | 11:00, 3 March 2010 |
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