18TH C JAMES BASIRE AND EDWARD ROOKER ENGRAVINGS: 6 engravings from Volume IV, ''The Antiquities of Athens'' by James Stuart and Nicholas Revett. These professionally framed and matted engravings appear to be from Chapter IV, the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates. They show reliefs on the Lysikrates monument illustrating the story of the Tyrrhenian pirates. Approximate plate impression measurements, Chap: IV.PL:XXIV: platemark measures 7 _'' h x 12 14''w, overall measurement approx. 14 1/8''h x 20 7/8''. Chap: IV.PL:XXV: platemark measures 7'' h x 15 1/4''w, overall measurement approx. 14 1/8''h x 20 7/8''. Only 2 examined out of frame. Sold as a lot. Note: The Lysicrates Monument is the circular structure, raised on a high squared podium and is one of the first Greek monuments built according to the Corinthian order. Its frieze sculptures depict episodes from the myth of Dionysus, the patron god of the stage, who defeats Tyrrhenian pirates by turning them into dolphins and the god whose rites developed into Greek theatre. It originally served as support for the bronze tripod that was given as prize. It stands now in its little garden on the Tripodon Street (''Street of the Tripods''), which follows the line of the ancient street of the name, which led to the Theater of Dionysus and was once lined with choragic monuments, of which the foundations were discovered in excavations during the 1980s.