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ing on a pavement, to which there was an ascent of 3 steps. The
total height above the platform was about 65 feet. Within the
peristyle, at either front, there was an interior range of 6 columns
standing before the pronaos and posticum, which, contrary to the
usual practice, were alike, because the latter presented itself, more
conspicuously than the eastern or principal front, to the Piraeeus and
sea-coast, and to the Propylaea or entrance to the Acropolis itself.
This arrangement of the columns before the antae appears to
have been an invention of Ictinus, employed(2) for the first time in
this work : so important indeed were the inventions applied to this
temple, and all the operations connected with it, that they were
recorded in a book composed by Ictinus and Carpion.(3) There
was an ascent of two steps into the vestibules from the peristyle.
The cell, which was 62 feet 6 inches broad within, was divided
into two unequal chambers, of which the western was 43 feet 10
inches long and the eastern 98 feet 7 inches; the former, designed
as the opisthodomus or treasury of the temple, does not appear to
have had any communication with the cella in which the statue was
placed: its ceiling was supported by 4 columns of about 4 feet in
diameter. The western front, for the reasons already explained,
was adorned with a posticum and doorway, apparently of equal
magnificence with those of the eastern, which was the entrance
to the cella. The ceiling of the latter was supported by 16 columns
of about 3 feet in diameter. It is not known of what order were
the interior columns of either chamber. The lines on the plan
describe the slabs of marble composing the pavement of the
2 Item generibus aliis constituantur iEdes, ex iisdem Symmetriis ordinatae, et alio
genere dispositions habentes, uti est Castoris in Circo Flaminio, et inter duos lucos
Vejovis—item argutius nemori Diana; columnis adjectis dextra ac sinistra, ad
lmmeros pronai.—Hoc autem genere prima facta aedes, uti est Castoris in Circo,
Athenis in arce Minerva?. Vitruvius, lib. iv.
3 Postea Selenus---edidit volumen--item de a?de Minerva? Dorica qua?
est in Atbenis in arce Ictinus et Carpion. Vitruvius, lib. vii.
ing on a pavement, to which there was an ascent of 3 steps. The
total height above the platform was about 65 feet. Within the
peristyle, at either front, there was an interior range of 6 columns
standing before the pronaos and posticum, which, contrary to the
usual practice, were alike, because the latter presented itself, more
conspicuously than the eastern or principal front, to the Piraeeus and
sea-coast, and to the Propylaea or entrance to the Acropolis itself.
This arrangement of the columns before the antae appears to
have been an invention of Ictinus, employed(2) for the first time in
this work : so important indeed were the inventions applied to this
temple, and all the operations connected with it, that they were
recorded in a book composed by Ictinus and Carpion.(3) There
was an ascent of two steps into the vestibules from the peristyle.
The cell, which was 62 feet 6 inches broad within, was divided
into two unequal chambers, of which the western was 43 feet 10
inches long and the eastern 98 feet 7 inches; the former, designed
as the opisthodomus or treasury of the temple, does not appear to
have had any communication with the cella in which the statue was
placed: its ceiling was supported by 4 columns of about 4 feet in
diameter. The western front, for the reasons already explained,
was adorned with a posticum and doorway, apparently of equal
magnificence with those of the eastern, which was the entrance
to the cella. The ceiling of the latter was supported by 16 columns
of about 3 feet in diameter. It is not known of what order were
the interior columns of either chamber. The lines on the plan
describe the slabs of marble composing the pavement of the
2 Item generibus aliis constituantur iEdes, ex iisdem Symmetriis ordinatae, et alio
genere dispositions habentes, uti est Castoris in Circo Flaminio, et inter duos lucos
Vejovis—item argutius nemori Diana; columnis adjectis dextra ac sinistra, ad
lmmeros pronai.—Hoc autem genere prima facta aedes, uti est Castoris in Circo,
Athenis in arce Minerva?. Vitruvius, lib. iv.
3 Postea Selenus---edidit volumen--item de a?de Minerva? Dorica qua?
est in Atbenis in arce Ictinus et Carpion. Vitruvius, lib. vii.