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 THESEUM, ERECHTHEUM, AND OTHER WORKS. l6l a drawing by E. Flandin, now in the library at South Kensington, was made, the western wall and its windows was already destroyed, only three columns and two pieces of architrave resting upon them being left In 1832-33 it was in this same state, as appears from the description given by Wordsworth, who says, further, that the adjoining north porch was much injured in the siege of 1827. It was almost certainly at this time that the screen wall was destroyed, leaving only the three columns standing. Eight j'ears before, when it was drawn by Inwood, it was very much in the state it was in at the middle of the eighteenth century. (See view in Pococke's travels.) By what has been said, the con- struction of the wall is plainly re- vealed ; the columns were first erected, and then the screen wall was built. Even now the antse at each end, re- bated to take the screen wall, are of the original work. The north anta is formed on stones which are part of the main walling blocks which show in the north porch. Since writ- ing the above a valuable contribution to the history of the west wall has been published in the A merican Journal of Archeology (June 1908). It is there shown by a comparison of the ac- counts with the building that the present west wall represents the original external wall, and that in the southern bay there was a curious recess. It is stated that the screens between the columns were of wood, this follows from the fact that Comon of Melite, who fixed them, also prepared rafters for the roof The tetrastyle (north) porch was greatly injured in the siege of 1827 ; before that time the spaces between the pillars had been walled up to form part of a house. There is a good drawing of it in this state c. 1802, by R. Smirke, in the library of the Institute of Architects. The fallen portions have recently been re- erected. In the Museum we have a lacunar stone and a cast of the door ■console, which, as said above, is not actually part of the original Fig. i6t.— A, Plan of At tached Column ; B, Sec- tion of Lacunaria.