. A description of the East, and some other countries . arated the innerpart of the temple from the pronaos, or ante-temple, and as there weretwo entrances to the temple, it is probable there was a pronaos at eachend, as there was at the temple of Thefeus, only with this differencethat the pronaos there is open, having only two pillars in front; one ofthem remains entire, and there are figns within of the wall of the appears notwithftanding that there were folding doors at the entrancefrom the portico to the weft, as by opening and fhutting them theyhad worn the marble pavement. Proba
. A description of the East, and some other countries . arated the innerpart of the temple from the pronaos, or ante-temple, and as there weretwo entrances to the temple, it is probable there was a pronaos at eachend, as there was at the temple of Thefeus, only with this differencethat the pronaos there is open, having only two pillars in front; one ofthem remains entire, and there are figns within of the wall of the appears notwithftanding that there were folding doors at the entrancefrom the portico to the weft, as by opening and fhutting them theyhad worn the marble pavement. Probably they placed in the middlepart ot the temple, that famous ftatue of Minerva which was dedicatedby all the Athenians, and was faid by the vulgar to have fallen downfrom heaven. At each end of the temple of Minerva there is a doublecolonade, and from the floor on which the outer row ftands there aretwo fteps up to the fccond colonade, each a foot deep, fo that thofe pil-lars are near two feet fhorter than the outer row, and the pillars on each J fide. Uie TEMPLE, of MINEKVA. at ATHEINTS
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