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Elgin to Perceval, May 6, 1811, British Museum Library, ADD. MS 38191, fol. 119.

Smith, “Lord Elgin and His Collections,” p. 227.

A.D. Norre, “Studies in the History of the Parthenon,” (Ph.D. diss., University of California at Los Angeles, 1966), p. 88.

The new roof that was built covered only the cella. The area between the cella and the peristyle was left uncovered (M. Korres, The Parthenon and Its Impact on Modern Times [Athens: Melissa and New York: Abrams, 1994], pp. 145, 146, fig. 12).

William R. Hamilton, Memorandum on the Subject of the Earl of Elgin’s Pursuits in Greece, 2nd ed. Corrected (London: W. Miller, 1815), p. 15.

Report from the Select Committee, p. 146.

Report from the Select Committee, p. 142. The role that Hunt played in maneuvering the Voivode into allowing the removal of the marbles is well detailed in St. Clair, Lord Elgin and the Marbles, pp. 94–95.

For a complete English translation of the firman, see Report from the Select Committee, Appendix 10, pp. xxiv-xxvi.

St. Clair, Lord Elgin and the Marbles, pp. 17–18, 79–82.

Smith, “Lord Elgin and His Collection,” p. 190.