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100 1 _aKorres, M.
_q(Manoles)
_912172
_eauthor
245 1 4 _aThe stones of the Parthenon /
_cManolis Korres.
260 _aAthens :
_bMelissa,
_c2000.
300 _a69 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c20 cm.
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
504 _aBibliography: page 69.
505 0 _a1. Athens and her quarries -- 2. The Pentelicon quarry -- 3. The marble for the column capital -- 4. Sockets for wedges and levers -- 5. Splitting the block from the parent rock -- 6. Preparing to cut away excess marble -- 7. Removing excess marble -- 8. Squaring the block -- 9. Overturning the block to work on the underside -- 10. Stages in the formation of the column capital -- 11. Assembling a timer sledge -- 12. Hoisting the block to the quarry entrance -- 13. Descending to the loading platform -- 14. Loading the capital onto the large wagon -- 15. On the road to Athens -- 16. On the eastern outskirts of the city -- 17. Passing the south slope of the Acropolis -- 18. From the ramp to the propylon via the "balanced wagon" method -- 19. At the work site to the east of the Parthenon -- 20. A Dilemma: greater economy or greater security? 21. The work site after the persian attack -- 22. The same site, fifty years later -- 23. Time future.
610 0 _aParthenon (Athens, Greece)
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