Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-12

OF the University OF vermont, at present
director Of the American
Prof. Hills School Of Classical Stud
n les at Athens, is contn-
NosooASA' uing Investigations that
were begun by his predecessors several
years ago. He Is now making eXcava-
tons under the pavement of the Par
thenon, which consists OF marble blocks
eighteen inches thick. The present Par
| thenon, which was built about $50 B. c..
| stands on the site of another, which was
| burned during the Persian invasion Of
Greece. Portions Of the structure then
ruined were built into a new Parthenon,
particularly into the foundations, and as
result Of his Investigations Mr.: Hill has
already plotted on paper the details of
the original building and is engaged in
verifying his work by excavations.
Although the Parthenon is one of the
oldest of ruins. the best known and the
most discussed, not excepting the Coli
scum at Rome, new things are found
and new discoveries are made almost
every year. Within the last few days DR..
Hill has found several interesting things,
including coins and a mirror which some
workman must have dropped twenty-five
hundred years ago when the floor was
being laid.
Our work in Athens for the last year"
said DR.. Hill this morning, is a continu-
started by Mr.. Stevens in 1893. He made
new plans OF the Erechtheion. which stands
In slight depression near the Parthenon
on the Acropols and contained the shrine
of Athena, the guardian of the city, and
several other deities. When this tenn
pie was burned down by the Persians, in
$50 B. c., 1t was rebuilt. but was not
completed until 4o7 3. c. Mr. Gorham P.
Stevens. who received his technical train
ing in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology ana is now with McKim,
Mead & White, the well known archi-
tects Of New York, did great work there.
I'm the course of his Investigations he
discovered the details of the windows in
the front of the build
Stevens ing and was able to
n: identify four or five
OAe0osSAAeS' fragments that were
lying among the debris ON the ground.
He absolutely proved not only that the
walls did have window on each side Of
the door. but gives in detail the form, di-
mansions and the precise character Of the
ornamentations. 1t was brilliant piece
of work and is very highly regarded by
archaeological and architectural experts.
"since then Mr.. H. d. Wood of Phiia-
delphia and the University OF Pennsyl-
Can1d, VINO, like MI stevens, was d lellOW
in architecture at the American School in
Athens and w B. Dinsmoor Of Harvard.
whose home is in Boston. have found out
a great deal that was never known before
about the construction OF the Propylaea,
the gateway magnificent of the Acropolis,
which was built by an architect named
Mnesikles in 437 B. q This magnificent
building has been described the bril-
liant Jewel on the front of the conspic-
uous rocky coronet Of the Athenian
Acropolis.' and rivals the Parthenon in
the admiration of the ancients. This was
also destroyed by an explosion of gun
powder in 1861.
mir Wood and Mr.. Dinsmoor have
been able to replace parts of the building
which We're lying in fragments around it.
We hope to have Mr.. Dinsmoor remain
here as lonsras may be necessary to COM
p1ete the work and make full and new
description of the Propylaea- we Knew
in a general way how things were, but
they discovered the actual stones that
were in the two western wings, and have