Anderson, William J.; Spiers, Richard Phené; Ashby, Thomas [Hrsg.]: The architecture of Greece and Rome (2): The architecture of ancient Rome: an account of its historic development ... (London, 1927)

TEMPLES, BASILICAS, AND THEATRES.

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three-quarter detached columns of the Tuscan,1 Ionic, and Corin-
thian orders, superposed on the respective storeys, and carrying
each a complete entablature, the architraves of which are voussoired
and carried back into the solid wall. The upper storey is un-
pierced except by small windows lighting the corridor underneath
the upper range of seats or gallery, and its wall is decorated with
Corinthian pilasters on lofty pedestals superposed on the other


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orders below. Above the windows outside are three projecting
corbels in each bay to carry the masts of the velarium, (the awning
by which the auditorium was shaded), which rise through the cor-
nice, while inside there are corbels, which carried flat arches, forming
a terrace for the sailors whose duty it was to attend to the velarium.
The proportion of the lowest order is poor and meagre, the column
being 9 diameters high and 7^ diameters centre to centre. In
consequence of the height of the vault over the ground floor corridor
the pavement of the corridor above is raised considerably above
the cornice of the order, and a podium or plinth is introduced, the
cornice of which ranges with the first floor pavement; a similar
arrangement exists on the next floor. Under the columns the
mouldings of the plinth return on each side, and constitute pedes-
tals, and it may be in consequence of this arrangement that the
Ionic column is only 8| diameters in height, as also the Corinthian
column above. The results are very fine, and compensate for the
1 There are no triglyphs in the frieze of the lower order, the capitals have
Etruscan mouldings, and the bases are Etruscan.