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

The thorough investigation of the soil and rock of the Acropolis lately finished by the Greek Government has brought to light so much that is new and strange that definite explanations and conclusions are still far away. The pediment-reliefs in poros which now occupy the second and third rooms of the Acropolis Museum have already been somewhat fully treated, especially in their architectural bearings. Dr. Brückner of the German Institute has written a full monograph on the subject, 36 and it has also been fully treated by Lechat in the Revue Archeologique. 37 Shorter papers have appeared in the Mittheilungen by Studniczka 38 and P.J. Meier. 39 Dr. Waldstein in a recent peripatetic lecture suggested a new point of view in the connection between these reliefs and Greek vase-paintings. It is this suggestion that I have tried to follow out.