 Koningsmark, when they besieged the acropolis in 1687, threw a bomb, which demolished the roof, and, setting fire to some powder, did much damage to the fabric. The floor, which is indented, still witnesses the place of its fall. This was the sad forerunner...  Travels in Asia Minor, and Greece:: Or, An Account of a Tour Made at the ... - Σελίδα 53των Richard Chandler - 1817 - 671 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1823 - 894 σελίδες
...and applying them to the building of a new mosque, which stands within the rum, or to the repairing their houses and the walls of the fortress. The vast...disappear. " The temple of Minerva in 1676 was, as Wheeler and Spon assert, the finest mosque in the world, without comparison. The Creeks bad adapted... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 824 σελίδες
...th* sad forerunner of farther destruction ; the Turki breaking the stones, and applying them to th« building of a new mosque, which stands within the...will gradually be consumed and disappear. The temple oi Minerva in 1676 was, as Wheeler and Spoa assert, the finest mosque in the world, without comparison.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 852 σελίδες
...forerunner of farther destruction ; the Turks breaking the stones, and applying them to the builflmg of a new mosque, which stands within the ruin or to...will gradually be consumed and disappear. The temple ot Minerva in 1676 was, as Wheeler and Spon assert, the finest mosque in the world, without comparison.... | |
 | Olga Palagia - 1998 - 178 σελίδες
...as building material, souvenirs or target practice. Morosini's bombardment, wrote Chandler in 1817, "was the sad forerunner of farther destruction; the...the whole structure will gradually be consumed and disappear."36 The main bulk of the pediment sculptures was taken down by Lusieri, Lord Elgin's agent,... | |
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