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CNIDUS.
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PLATE XV.
CAPITAL OF THE ANTJE AND GORONAMENTA OF THE ORDER.
We are here enabled to present to the reader a most exquisite specimen of the enrichments of
Greco-Ionian architecture. A consideration of the elegance it displays in design and execution
may induce the young aspirant to architectural fame to pay more attention to these particulars than
is usually observed, and scarcely ever adopted.
The capitals of the antae comprize the abacus with a deep and flattened hollow, which in the
returns is divided into three several mouldings, somewhat similar to those of the Erechtheum; the
face is sculptured into foliage of rare and elegant device. It ends below in the ornamental bead
and fillet and has a necking on which are sculptured chrysanthema resembling closely those on
the door-way of the stoa of the Greek temple; the epistylium and the zophorus are each nearly
1 foot 5 inches in height, being a fourth less than the lower diameters of the columns. It
is crowned by a cornice having the denticulus, and the plain corona and simae with lions' masks;
together nearly 14 inches deep. The bases of the antae are of the usual simple character.
The whole depth of the coronamenta is very nearly 4 feet.
PLATE XVI.
TRANSVERSE SECTION THROUGH THE ORDER.
This section shows the pulvinated face of the Ionic columns with the section of the epistylium,
the inner face of which differs from that of the exterior, and is notched where the lower half sup-
ports the transverse beams of the lacunaria, the moulded face of which is continued around the
interior of the vestibule.
The bases of the columns are of that kind termed Ionian by Vitruvius, and which commonly
occur in the temples of Ionia and especially in those of an early period. The bases of the antae
of the Attic kind, thus reversing the mode followed in the stoa of the Erechtheum.
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PLATE XV.
CAPITAL OF THE ANTJE AND GORONAMENTA OF THE ORDER.
We are here enabled to present to the reader a most exquisite specimen of the enrichments of
Greco-Ionian architecture. A consideration of the elegance it displays in design and execution
may induce the young aspirant to architectural fame to pay more attention to these particulars than
is usually observed, and scarcely ever adopted.
The capitals of the antae comprize the abacus with a deep and flattened hollow, which in the
returns is divided into three several mouldings, somewhat similar to those of the Erechtheum; the
face is sculptured into foliage of rare and elegant device. It ends below in the ornamental bead
and fillet and has a necking on which are sculptured chrysanthema resembling closely those on
the door-way of the stoa of the Greek temple; the epistylium and the zophorus are each nearly
1 foot 5 inches in height, being a fourth less than the lower diameters of the columns. It
is crowned by a cornice having the denticulus, and the plain corona and simae with lions' masks;
together nearly 14 inches deep. The bases of the antae are of the usual simple character.
The whole depth of the coronamenta is very nearly 4 feet.
PLATE XVI.
TRANSVERSE SECTION THROUGH THE ORDER.
This section shows the pulvinated face of the Ionic columns with the section of the epistylium,
the inner face of which differs from that of the exterior, and is notched where the lower half sup-
ports the transverse beams of the lacunaria, the moulded face of which is continued around the
interior of the vestibule.
The bases of the columns are of that kind termed Ionian by Vitruvius, and which commonly
occur in the temples of Ionia and especially in those of an early period. The bases of the antae
of the Attic kind, thus reversing the mode followed in the stoa of the Erechtheum.