[The Temple of Hephaestus, Athens.]
[D. Costantin á Athens] [n.d., c.1860] Albumen silver print, mounted on album paper. 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"). A little discolouration in sky. An early photograph of the Temple of Hephaestus (formerly the Temple of Theseus because it was believed his remains were inside), a well-preserved Doric temple on the north-west side of the Agora of Athens, inaugurated 415BC. P. Constantin in Athens not signed in plate.
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[Ruins of the Temple of Posidon at Cape Sounion.] Temple on Cape Colonna.
[D. Costantin á Athens] [n.d., c.1860.] Albumen silver print, mounted on album paper, titled in English in pencil. 280 x 380mm (11 x 15"). An early photograph of the Temple of Posidon at Cape Sounion, 40 miles south-west of Athens, at the southernmost tip of Attica. Built c.440BC in the Doric style, it has Byron's name carved into one of the columns; although Byron mentions Sounion in his poem 'Isles of Greece' ('Place me on Sunium's marbled steep...') there is no evidence that he carved it. Another column is now in the British Museum.
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