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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
carried so far, the wooden axis bearing directly upon the
stone, in the centre of which a cylindrical hole was cut to
receive it.
As can be seen from the sketch, Plate 9, the plane surfaces
of the drums were so tooled as to present points of contact
only in a concentrical band, about 0.1 metre broad, upon
their edges, according to the practice universal in all Greek
architecture of good period.
Plate 9.
The shafts of the peripteros had sixteen channels, those of
the pronaos eighteen. It is an inexplicable and unique ar-
rangement of the channelling upon the columns of the temple
of Assos that arrises, not hollows, were in the axes of the
plan, and in line with the faces of the abacus. This peculi-
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
carried so far, the wooden axis bearing directly upon the
stone, in the centre of which a cylindrical hole was cut to
receive it.
As can be seen from the sketch, Plate 9, the plane surfaces
of the drums were so tooled as to present points of contact
only in a concentrical band, about 0.1 metre broad, upon
their edges, according to the practice universal in all Greek
architecture of good period.
Plate 9.
The shafts of the peripteros had sixteen channels, those of
the pronaos eighteen. It is an inexplicable and unique ar-
rangement of the channelling upon the columns of the temple
of Assos that arrises, not hollows, were in the axes of the
plan, and in line with the faces of the abacus. This peculi-