Since only the first of these agreed with the two dates he had derived when starting from the Parian Marble ( 969 and 968 ), he decided on 968 / 67 BC as the time of foundation of the Temple.
22.
The grandfather's name, as recorded by the Parian Marble, was also Simonides, and it has been argued by some scholars that the earliest references to Simonides in ancient sources might in fact be references to this grandfather.
23.
Additionally, after Take Ionescu's death, Venizelos donated a bloc of Parian marble to be used for the politician's bust ( ultimately placed inside the Chamber quarters on Mitropoliei Hill ), and another marble bloc to be used for his grave in Sinaia Monastery.
24.
The head, carved in Parian marble, is of colossal proportions-it measures 56 cm high ( i . e . twice life size ) and the complete statue would have had a height of around 3.6 metres which suggests that it was a cult statue.
25.
Made from Parian marble, it is 1.73 metres high, the god is depicted naked, standing, the left leg is slightly bent and drawn back resting on the ball of the foot, the left hand holds onto a trident resting on the ground, the right arm is raised slightly.
26.
The Venus de Milo was found to have been carved from at least six or seven blocks of Parian marble : one block for the nude torso, another for the draped legs, one for each arm, a small block for the right foot, a block for the inscribed plinth, and the separately carved herm that stood beside the statue.
27.
For example, according to an entry in the Parian Marble, Simonides died in 468 / 7 BC at the age of ninety yet, in another entry, it lists a victory by his grandfather in a poetry competition in Athens in 489 / 488 BC this grandfather must have been over a hundred years old at that time if the birth dates for Simonides are correct.
28.
There remains still another source of light to be considered, that passing through the Parian marble tiles of the roof; the superior translucency of Parian to any other marble may have suggested its employment for the roofs of temples, and if, in the framed ceilings carried over the celia, openings were left, some light from the Parian tile roof might have been obtained.
29.
According to the " Parian Marble ", the battle took place at the end of the archonship of Cephisodorus, hence in late May or June 322 BC, perhaps, according to N . G . Ashton ( " The Annual of the British School at Athens " 172, 1977, pp . 10 11 ), as late as 26 or 27 June.
30.
Young and Steinmann, however, maintain that The writer of an annalistic history that professes to give exact dates for events would not assure readers of his credibility by saying that his information was derived from the common folklore . . . For the Parian Marble, such reassurance would be given if the original word, for which the genitive plural ending-??? has survived, was not ??????, but ?????, i . e . of Athens, taking the word as a noun ( Athens was a plural noun in classical Greek ).
