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INVESTIGATIONS AT ASSOS, 1881.. 103
bly of the taenia, and from the archaic colors displayed by the
terra-cotta antefix.
The most trustworthy and conclusive results are to be ob-
tained from a comparison of the table given above with the
known proportions of other Doric temples. The height of
the column expressed in lower diameters shows the temple
of Assos (5.23) to stand between the temples of Athena
(4.27) and of Artemis (4.29) at Syracuse, of the temple at
Corinth (4.32), of the temple (Z>) at Selinus (4-50), etc., on the
one hand ; and the Theseion (5.62), the Parthenon (5.47), and
the temple of iEgina (5.30), on the other. The relation of
Semper's norm for these buildings is particularly interesting,
but the statement of it is of too great length to be given here.
A further comparison of proportions, leading to the same re-
sult, is best made between the heights of epistyle, frieze, and
corona, the width of the pteroma, and the relative diminution
of the shaft.
A remarkable similarity of absolute dimensions is notice-
able between the temple of Assos and the Theseion. In the
Theseion, for instance, the breadth of the stylobate is 13.816
metres, in the temple of Assos 14.035 metres; in the former
the breadth of the cella upon the exterior is 7.928 metres, in the
latter 7.965 metres. The number of columns upon front and
sides, the orientation south of east, in neither case necessitated
by the configuration of the ground, and even the exceptional
reduction of the steps to two, are in both temples the same.
While the plans of the archaic monuments of Selinus show
a helpless irregularity of general arrangement, the temple of
Assos presents a developed disposition of parts attainable only
after many experiments.
From the situation of the pronaos columns, exactly in the
lateral axis of the third shafts of the side, the existence of
transverse lintels above the pteroma is rendered almost cer-
bly of the taenia, and from the archaic colors displayed by the
terra-cotta antefix.
The most trustworthy and conclusive results are to be ob-
tained from a comparison of the table given above with the
known proportions of other Doric temples. The height of
the column expressed in lower diameters shows the temple
of Assos (5.23) to stand between the temples of Athena
(4.27) and of Artemis (4.29) at Syracuse, of the temple at
Corinth (4.32), of the temple (Z>) at Selinus (4-50), etc., on the
one hand ; and the Theseion (5.62), the Parthenon (5.47), and
the temple of iEgina (5.30), on the other. The relation of
Semper's norm for these buildings is particularly interesting,
but the statement of it is of too great length to be given here.
A further comparison of proportions, leading to the same re-
sult, is best made between the heights of epistyle, frieze, and
corona, the width of the pteroma, and the relative diminution
of the shaft.
A remarkable similarity of absolute dimensions is notice-
able between the temple of Assos and the Theseion. In the
Theseion, for instance, the breadth of the stylobate is 13.816
metres, in the temple of Assos 14.035 metres; in the former
the breadth of the cella upon the exterior is 7.928 metres, in the
latter 7.965 metres. The number of columns upon front and
sides, the orientation south of east, in neither case necessitated
by the configuration of the ground, and even the exceptional
reduction of the steps to two, are in both temples the same.
While the plans of the archaic monuments of Selinus show
a helpless irregularity of general arrangement, the temple of
Assos presents a developed disposition of parts attainable only
after many experiments.
From the situation of the pronaos columns, exactly in the
lateral axis of the third shafts of the side, the existence of
transverse lintels above the pteroma is rendered almost cer-