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PLATE XIX.
PLAN OF THE TEMPLE OF CERES AT ELEUSIS.
For a more particular description of the ruins of this edifice, the history, the mysterious rites and
ceremonies practised on this spot, Dr. Chandler's Travels in Greece may be consulted.
Vitruvius, in the introduction to the seventh book, gives the following account of this build-
ing: " Eleusinse Cereris ct Proserpina? cellam immani magitudine Ictinus Dorico more, sine exte-
rioribus columnis ad laxamentum usus sacrificiorum pertexit; earn autem postea cum Demetrius
Phalareus* Athenis rerum potiretur, Philon ante templum in fronte columnis constitutis prostylon
fecit; ita aucto vestibulo laxamentum initiantibus, operique summam adjecit auctoritatem."
PLATE XX.
PART OF THE ORDER AT LARGE, WITH THE POSITION OF THE STEPS, AND
SHAFT OF THE COLUMNS, BELONGING TO THE TEMPLE OF CERES.
The method observed by the Greeks in working the flutes of their columns, may be here
remarked : the channels under the capital and at the base only, were marked out as a direction
to the workmen in future, in finishing the flutings after the structure was raised ; the rest of the
shaft being left entire, to guard against any injury that part of the column might receive during
its erection. As a proof of this, in the remains of the Temple of Apollo Didymaeus near Miletus,
given in the first volume of this work, may be seen two columns supporting their architrave,
with the flutes entirely worked; also one left standing in its unfinished state, the lines of direc-
tion being marked above and below on the shaft of this column. A small projecting moulding
or listello, may be observed in the drawing under consideration, just above the flutes, probably
left to prevent the chisel, in cutting away the surface, entering too deep: this was afterwards
polished down with the rest when the whole edifice was completed. The single column remain-
ing of this Temple, appears to have been one of those added by Philon, to form the Prostylos.
(See Vitruvius, 1. iii. c. i.)
* Anno ante C. 3 15.
PLATE XIX.
PLAN OF THE TEMPLE OF CERES AT ELEUSIS.
For a more particular description of the ruins of this edifice, the history, the mysterious rites and
ceremonies practised on this spot, Dr. Chandler's Travels in Greece may be consulted.
Vitruvius, in the introduction to the seventh book, gives the following account of this build-
ing: " Eleusinse Cereris ct Proserpina? cellam immani magitudine Ictinus Dorico more, sine exte-
rioribus columnis ad laxamentum usus sacrificiorum pertexit; earn autem postea cum Demetrius
Phalareus* Athenis rerum potiretur, Philon ante templum in fronte columnis constitutis prostylon
fecit; ita aucto vestibulo laxamentum initiantibus, operique summam adjecit auctoritatem."
PLATE XX.
PART OF THE ORDER AT LARGE, WITH THE POSITION OF THE STEPS, AND
SHAFT OF THE COLUMNS, BELONGING TO THE TEMPLE OF CERES.
The method observed by the Greeks in working the flutes of their columns, may be here
remarked : the channels under the capital and at the base only, were marked out as a direction
to the workmen in future, in finishing the flutings after the structure was raised ; the rest of the
shaft being left entire, to guard against any injury that part of the column might receive during
its erection. As a proof of this, in the remains of the Temple of Apollo Didymaeus near Miletus,
given in the first volume of this work, may be seen two columns supporting their architrave,
with the flutes entirely worked; also one left standing in its unfinished state, the lines of direc-
tion being marked above and below on the shaft of this column. A small projecting moulding
or listello, may be observed in the drawing under consideration, just above the flutes, probably
left to prevent the chisel, in cutting away the surface, entering too deep: this was afterwards
polished down with the rest when the whole edifice was completed. The single column remain-
ing of this Temple, appears to have been one of those added by Philon, to form the Prostylos.
(See Vitruvius, 1. iii. c. i.)
* Anno ante C. 3 15.