Sculptures of the Temple of Aphaia Aegian 1908

Title : Sculptures of the Temple of Aphaia Aegian 1908  
Author : Not Stated
Source : Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist
Year Published : 1908
Page Count : 12
Image Count : 5
Word Count : 3,995
File Size in MB : 4.6
File Type : PDF

"Only a few years later, still in the fifth century, Athens came in her full power upon the Aeginetans, destroyed their city, drove them into exile, and covered up their local goddess for ever. The shore and the hill, which in very early times had been well covered with peasant houses, were now quite deserted, and the temple above the trees was left to fall of itself to ruin. Later the peasant cultivated the little plateau on which the building stood, and because the wonderful heads of those statues, which had formed outlying ornaments of the terrace, hindered his ploughshare, he collected them and threw them together into the temple cistern. Seven years ago Professor Furtwangler found them there and brought them back to honour..."