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84 ARCHAZOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
throughout their extent, with the exception of two blocks
next to the northwestern corner. These stones were of
irregular shape and size, brought to a plane upon the upper
surface, to receive the imposed masonry, but otherwise rough
and unhewn, since they were hidden from sight, upon their
inner edges by the pavement of the naos, upon the outside by
the cement floor of the pteroma and pronaos. Upon these
blocks, and upon the two exposed surfaces of the natural rock
before mentioned as sharing their functions, the outer line of
the cella wall was engraved in its entire extent. The temple
crepidoma, thus characterized technically as well as ideally as
an aplaP, was directly employed by the Greek master-builder
as a drawing-board. On the plan, Plate 7, these delicate inci-
sions are given in broken lines, being distinguished from the
measurements in line-dot, and the traces of weathering at the
bottom of the columns in dots. The lack of this engraving
upon the interior points to a less careful execution of the
inner surface of the wall, which probably bore a coating of
stucco.
The thickness of the walls of the antae was indicated by
these lines. In the lack of similar evidence for the lateral
walls of the naos these may reasonably be assumed as of equal
thickness to the division walls between naos and pronaos.
Examples of this manner of construction, where the enclosing
walls are thinner than the free-standing antae, though com-
paratively rare, are still not wanting among the peripteral
Doric temples hitherto known.
The position of the foundation stones and the engraved
lines upon them display an exceptional feature of the plan ;
the cella was wholly without an epinaos, the plain wall of its
rear being carried across the west at the same distance from
the steps as upon the sides.
The two columns of the pronaos in antis stood upon square
throughout their extent, with the exception of two blocks
next to the northwestern corner. These stones were of
irregular shape and size, brought to a plane upon the upper
surface, to receive the imposed masonry, but otherwise rough
and unhewn, since they were hidden from sight, upon their
inner edges by the pavement of the naos, upon the outside by
the cement floor of the pteroma and pronaos. Upon these
blocks, and upon the two exposed surfaces of the natural rock
before mentioned as sharing their functions, the outer line of
the cella wall was engraved in its entire extent. The temple
crepidoma, thus characterized technically as well as ideally as
an aplaP, was directly employed by the Greek master-builder
as a drawing-board. On the plan, Plate 7, these delicate inci-
sions are given in broken lines, being distinguished from the
measurements in line-dot, and the traces of weathering at the
bottom of the columns in dots. The lack of this engraving
upon the interior points to a less careful execution of the
inner surface of the wall, which probably bore a coating of
stucco.
The thickness of the walls of the antae was indicated by
these lines. In the lack of similar evidence for the lateral
walls of the naos these may reasonably be assumed as of equal
thickness to the division walls between naos and pronaos.
Examples of this manner of construction, where the enclosing
walls are thinner than the free-standing antae, though com-
paratively rare, are still not wanting among the peripteral
Doric temples hitherto known.
The position of the foundation stones and the engraved
lines upon them display an exceptional feature of the plan ;
the cella was wholly without an epinaos, the plain wall of its
rear being carried across the west at the same distance from
the steps as upon the sides.
The two columns of the pronaos in antis stood upon square