Erechtheion

Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker provide a description, historical perspective, and analysis of a Caryatid from the Erechtheion on the Acropolis at Athens. Mnesicles may have been the architect.

Mnesicles (?), Caryatid (South Porch) and Ionic Column (North Porch), Erechtheion on the Acropolis, Athens, marble, 421–407 BCE, Classical Period (British Museum, London).