Comments on Photo: 25 x 18.7cm. NOTES ON REVERSE IN THE SAME HAND AS THOSE ON RECORD NO.79. NOTES READ "VISITED. 10 APRIL EASTER DAY 1887. CALLED BY LEAKE AND MULLER THE GATE OF THE NEW AGORA, BUT CURTIUS, WHOSE VIEW NOW APPEARS MOST APPROVED, CALLS IT THE GATE OF THE OIL MARKET. AN INSCRIPTION RECORDS ITS DEDICATION TO ATHENE ARCHEGETIS AND STATES THAT THE BUILDING WAS ERECTED BY MEANS OF DONATIONS FROM J. CAESAR AND AUGUSTUS IN THE ARCHONSHIP OF NIKIAS, SON OF SEREPION. ON THE CENTRAL ACROTERION STOOD A STATUE OF LUCIUS CASEAR, SON OF GERMANICUS AND GRANDSON OF AUGUSTUS. HE RECEIVED THE TITLE OF CAESAR A.D.12, AND DIED THE FOLLOWING YEAR."
Group: ANNOTATED PHOTOGRAPHS OF ATHENS, 1887
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