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82 THE PARTHENON AND ITS SCULPTURES. inscription has recently been found whereon is ordered the construction of a temple, a gateway, and an altar of marble, according to the direction of Callicrates the architect ; and a guard-house was also ordered to be built about 447 on the Aero- liomanail viav of th& J W a/igU^. marly vl i£s pruuu itatx' Fig. 68. — Perspective View of the Angle of Roof: from Penrose. polis by the same architect. As early as 460 we hear of this same Callicrates in connection with the building of the Long Walls at Athens. Now the Parthenon was begun in 447, and we are told that the architects were Callicrates and Ictinus, working under the