By the successive labors of Poujoulat, Huyot, and Texier,
the reliefs of the epistyle Ikd metopes of the temple, which

1 Description de PAsie Mi n cure, fait par ordre dit Gouvernemcnt fran^aise de
1833 h 1837 et ptibiiie par le Ministirc de V Instruction pubUquc. Par Charles
Texier. Deuxiemc partic, deuxi^me volume Paris. 1S49. The eminent archi-
tect and archaeologist, Huyot, who had visited Assos about 181 7, and made draw-
ings of the remains, is said to have directed the attention of Texier to Assos, and
to the reliefs which lay exposed upon the sides of the Acropolis. Huyot is said
by Clarac to have attempted to earn,' off the sculptured blocks.
2 Referring to the account of Old Symrnn, given by Texier, Dr. Hirschfcld
says : " Ixiider muss dieselbe beinahe als werthlos Ix'zcichnet werden ; dcnn die
elegant gezeichneten Formen entsprechen der Wirklichkeit in keiner Weisc."
(Compare the paper by Dr. Curtius in the Abhandluni^en der berliner Akadcmie,
1872.) The remarks of M. Perrot upon the plates concerning Pessinunt arc even



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lay exposed upon the summit of the Acropolis and its south-
eastern slope, appear to have become regarded as due to
France; and the well-known archaeologist, Raoul-Rochette,
having succeeded in obtaining a formal grant of the blocks
as a gift of the Sultan Mahmoud II. to the Louvre, they
were removed in 1838. Through these remarkable archaic
works of sculpture the attention of every scholar of Greek
antiquity and art has been attracted to Assos. Three publi-
cations^ have made them familiar to those unable to study the
originals, or the casts exhibited in European and American
capitals.
