This massive structure has a platform
Is it the frieze of this massive structure that covers an about thirty-metre-square area? Does "platform' here mean "the frieze"?
Context:
The great frieze of the battle of the gods and giants on the Altar of Zeus and Athena, Pergamon (c.175 bc) illustrates the dramatic realism of Hellenism. The son and successor of Attalus I, the ruler of Pergamon in Asia Minor, erected the altar to glorify his father’s victories. This massive structure has a platform about thirty metres square. It marks the historic battles of Attalus’s reign in an allegorical frieze more than two metres high, with gods and giants representing his armies and his enemies, respectively.
Top answer
I'd say that it's the platform of the alter that is about 30 metres square, and it is decorated with the frieze. e. what it stands on.
- I'd say that it's the platform of the alter that is about 30 metres square, and it is decorated with the frieze.
- e.
- what it stands on.
- You could say that it has a footprint of about 30 metres square.
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I'd say that it's the platform of the alter that is about 30 metres square, and it is decorated with the frieze.
The platform is presumably the base of the alter, i.e. what it stands on. You could say that it has a footprint of about 30 metres square.
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