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INVESTIGATIONS AT ASSOS, 1881. 99
Number of channelling^ :.....Svv
° I pronaos 18
Number of annulets............3
Number of necking incisions.........1
Proportion of height of capital to width of abacus . . . 1 : 2.5
Proportion of width of abacus to space between the abaci
of the side..............1:1.04
Proportion of the height of abacus to the height of echinos
and rings..............1 : 0.95
Height of capital divided by one-half the upper diameter
of shaft.............. 1.63
Width of abacus divided by one-half the upper diameter
of shaft.............. 3.72
The general untrustworthiness of the Description de I'Asie
Mineure has already been referred to. The description of
the temple of Assos, presented in that work, appears almost
worse than valueless.
The remains now unearthed show the orientation of the
building to have varied considerably from the east to the
south ; Texier places it thirty degrees to the north of its true
direction. The two steps are increased to three upon the
French elevation, to four upon the fronts of the plan. The
disposition of the plan given in the fine steel engraving, with
its double dipteral ranges of columns upon the east, and the
epinaos in antis upon the west, must have been conceived by
the ingenious author after his return to Paris. The width
of the building is given on the plan as 23, on the elevation
as 13 metres. The excessive, sack-like entasis of the shafts,
which has given rise to many wild theories, did not exist. The
striking arrangement of the channel arrises in the axes of the
building was overlooked, while important members, which
never existed, were added to the entablature, these being,
with unparalleled effrontery, scaled to the millimetre, as if
accurately measured! The projecting mouldings inserted be-
tween frieze and corona are wholly at variance with the char-
Number of channelling^ :.....Svv
° I pronaos 18
Number of annulets............3
Number of necking incisions.........1
Proportion of height of capital to width of abacus . . . 1 : 2.5
Proportion of width of abacus to space between the abaci
of the side..............1:1.04
Proportion of the height of abacus to the height of echinos
and rings..............1 : 0.95
Height of capital divided by one-half the upper diameter
of shaft.............. 1.63
Width of abacus divided by one-half the upper diameter
of shaft.............. 3.72
The general untrustworthiness of the Description de I'Asie
Mineure has already been referred to. The description of
the temple of Assos, presented in that work, appears almost
worse than valueless.
The remains now unearthed show the orientation of the
building to have varied considerably from the east to the
south ; Texier places it thirty degrees to the north of its true
direction. The two steps are increased to three upon the
French elevation, to four upon the fronts of the plan. The
disposition of the plan given in the fine steel engraving, with
its double dipteral ranges of columns upon the east, and the
epinaos in antis upon the west, must have been conceived by
the ingenious author after his return to Paris. The width
of the building is given on the plan as 23, on the elevation
as 13 metres. The excessive, sack-like entasis of the shafts,
which has given rise to many wild theories, did not exist. The
striking arrangement of the channel arrises in the axes of the
building was overlooked, while important members, which
never existed, were added to the entablature, these being,
with unparalleled effrontery, scaled to the millimetre, as if
accurately measured! The projecting mouldings inserted be-
tween frieze and corona are wholly at variance with the char-