Note (return) — THE TEMPLE ON THE ACROPOLIS BURNT BY THE PERSIANS.

Nevertheless correct reproductions of the frieze, derived from other sources, have not been wholly lacking. There is, for example, a drawing of the whole monument by S. Pomardi in Dodwell's Tour through Greece 99 (1819), in which the correct position of these groups is clearly indicated. In 1842 appeared volume IX of the British Museum Marbles containing engravings of a cast made by direction of Lord Elgin, about 1800. 100 Inasmuch as this cast or similar copies have always been the chief sources for the study of the relief, owing to the unsatisfactory preservation of the original, it is the more strange that this mistake should have remained so long uncorrected, 101 or that Müller-Wieseler should imply 102 that their engraving was corrected from the British Museum publication, when no trace of such correction is to be found. A third drawing in which the true arrangement is shown, is the engraving after Hansen's restoration of the whole monument, published in Von Lützow's monograph 103 (1868). Although Stuart's arrangement violates the symmetry maintained between the other groups of the frieze, yet Overbeck 104 especially commends the symmetry shown in the composition of these portions of the relief.