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 l6o THESEUM, ERECHTHEUM, AND OTHER WORKS. Gardner has argued that attached columns were not in use at the time when the Erechtheum was built, but we find them in the temples at Agrigentum and at Bassae, as well as in later works, like the Philippion at Olympia. The late works have shown that a large scheme of repairs was carried out in early Roman days which included work not only on the west wall but to the doorway, roof, and architrave of the north porch. Penrose considered that the west wall originally had the columns but no windows. Furtwangler thought that both were original. The later columns of the west wall fell in 1852. " My attention," says Penrose, " was called to the fragments as we}l as to the manner in which they had been fixed to the Fig. 160. — The Erechtheum, East Front. undoubtedly genuine work they rested on, which included the string and the bases of the half columns. The workmanship of the columns and capitals and the mouldings of the windows was of a very inferior character." It has generally been accepted that "the columns on the wall by the Pandroseion" mentioned in the accounts are the attached columns of the west front, and Choisy translates an entry in those accounts of a payment "to those who put four closures between the columns by the Pandroseion," and applies it to these columns on this wall. (Fig. 1 61.) It seems to confirm this view, that the windows were indeed in a thin screen wall set in between the columns. We are usually told that the west wall, with its attached columns, was blown down in 1852 But in 1839, when