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198 The Delphic Tripod
'The tripod to be fixed on the impost, after boring holes for its'feet and running
the same with lead ; also a small column of Pentelic marble to be^fixed beneath
the tripod, with a Doric capital to it, after cutting it straight below and working
it smooth; and the capital to be painted in encaustic1.'
As to Delphic usage, we may with some show of reason argue from
the Plataean trophy to the Pythian tripod. If the former was
columnar, it is natural to suppose that the latter was too ; for votive
1 M. Holleaux in the Ath. Mitth. 1906 xxxi. 134—144 with fig. 1: line 16 ff. errl
to K^TaXrjTrrrjpos tov TpLTroda Kadap/jLocrai, €VTer\ < r > pdvavra tols iroal Kal Trepi/j.o\v[i8oxoficrat,
K\al Kibviov ixpapfioaai HevTeXeiKov inrb tov t\piiro8a, AtopiKov ?xov T0 eirLKpavov ew' avro,
vtt o^etxavra opdbv Kal ^vaavra Xeiop, Kal to eiri\[Kpavov] eyKavaai.
'The tripod to be fixed on the impost, after boring holes for its'feet and running
the same with lead ; also a small column of Pentelic marble to be^fixed beneath
the tripod, with a Doric capital to it, after cutting it straight below and working
it smooth; and the capital to be painted in encaustic1.'
As to Delphic usage, we may with some show of reason argue from
the Plataean trophy to the Pythian tripod. If the former was
columnar, it is natural to suppose that the latter was too ; for votive
1 M. Holleaux in the Ath. Mitth. 1906 xxxi. 134—144 with fig. 1: line 16 ff. errl
to K^TaXrjTrrrjpos tov TpLTroda Kadap/jLocrai, €VTer\ < r > pdvavra tols iroal Kal Trepi/j.o\v[i8oxoficrat,
K\al Kibviov ixpapfioaai HevTeXeiKov inrb tov t\piiro8a, AtopiKov ?xov T0 eirLKpavov ew' avro,
vtt o^etxavra opdbv Kal ^vaavra Xeiop, Kal to eiri\[Kpavov] eyKavaai.