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Identifier: gri_33125009339611 (find matches)
Title: A description of the East, and some other countries
Year: 1743 (1740s)
Authors: Pococke, Richard, 1704-1765 Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810
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Publisher: London : Printed for the author, by W. Bowyer : And sold by J. and P. Knapton, W. Innys, W. Meadows, G. Hawkins, S. Birt, T. Longman, C. Hitch, R. Dodsley, J. Nourse, and J. Rivington
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b N G REECE. 163 I fide are on a pavement about half a foot lower than the inner row.This made me imagine that pofllbly the outer pillars were an addition inthe time of Adrian, to eredl on them thofe magnificent pediments, whichwere doubtlefs the fineft adorned of any in the world, and the ornamentsI appear to have been made in Adrians time, his flatue and that of hisemprefs Sabina being among them; theyarc very fingular in theirkind, not; being reliefs but entire figures of the fineft ftatues, which appear as bigas life, being hiftory pieces; that to the weft, Paufanias lays, reprefentedthe birth of Minerva. 1 faw in the pediment one naked figure fitting,j two clothed, a woman as in a pofture of walking, all without heads,I and two bodies in the middle ; one ftanding, and Adrian fitting withj his arms round a woman, and a naked figure fallen down; the hiftoryI on the eaftern pediment was the difpute between Minerva and Neptuneabout naming the city; where I faw remaining the head of a

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