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APHRODISIAS.
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PLATE VII.
ORDER OF THE COLUMNS OF THE PORTICO OF THE AGORA.
This plate shews the pulvinated side of one of the piers consisting of two semicolumns, and two
of its square sides forming the interior of one of the angles of the portico. This seems to have
been a common mode of construction, though altogether unnoticed by Vitruvius.
The zophorus, the same depth as that in the preceding Plate, is embellished by the alternate
introduction of a male and female genius winged, and supporting large wreaths of fruits, bound
by broad fillets, which meet over the shoulders whence depend their long ends. The columns
and entablatures also correspond in dimensions with the order last described, with a remarkable
degree of exactness.
PLATE VIII.
DETAILS OF THE ORDER OF THE AGORA.
The method of uniting the two semicolumns at the angles of the building with the square
piers or antae, and that of making the echinus to continue through, and return at a right-angle, shew
how the introduction of the volute in the antae-like portion of the piers may be avoided. A simpler
mode might have been adopted, by placing square antae with capitals, as we find them at Priene;
and in a Doric portico the awkward junction of two semitryglyphs would have thus been remedied.
Our province however is not to attempt any refinement of the Grecian practice, but to describe
things as they are. A. is the plan of one of the columns of the portico, one half being the plan
at the summit of the shaft, and the other that of half the abacus with soffits of the epistylium.
It shews that in some instances the pulvinaria, or cushions of the volutes exhibit varieties in this
mode of ornament.
B. one of the antae-fronts of the pier shewn in plate VII. The echinus and echines of the capitals,
as well as the flattened hollow of the canal of the volute, are carried through, and being mitred
at the angle proceed in this way to blend into the others. C. is the section at the line of the semi-
fluting. D. transverse section through the pulvinar.
E. the spiral of the helix major of the Ionic capitals, the aMy.iov of the Erechthean inscrip-
tion, the y^y-m &w«&fc to roiq xhot of Hesychius. F. section of echinus and of its spines. G. and
H. are sections of the flutings at the summit and the base of the shaft.
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PLATE VII.
ORDER OF THE COLUMNS OF THE PORTICO OF THE AGORA.
This plate shews the pulvinated side of one of the piers consisting of two semicolumns, and two
of its square sides forming the interior of one of the angles of the portico. This seems to have
been a common mode of construction, though altogether unnoticed by Vitruvius.
The zophorus, the same depth as that in the preceding Plate, is embellished by the alternate
introduction of a male and female genius winged, and supporting large wreaths of fruits, bound
by broad fillets, which meet over the shoulders whence depend their long ends. The columns
and entablatures also correspond in dimensions with the order last described, with a remarkable
degree of exactness.
PLATE VIII.
DETAILS OF THE ORDER OF THE AGORA.
The method of uniting the two semicolumns at the angles of the building with the square
piers or antae, and that of making the echinus to continue through, and return at a right-angle, shew
how the introduction of the volute in the antae-like portion of the piers may be avoided. A simpler
mode might have been adopted, by placing square antae with capitals, as we find them at Priene;
and in a Doric portico the awkward junction of two semitryglyphs would have thus been remedied.
Our province however is not to attempt any refinement of the Grecian practice, but to describe
things as they are. A. is the plan of one of the columns of the portico, one half being the plan
at the summit of the shaft, and the other that of half the abacus with soffits of the epistylium.
It shews that in some instances the pulvinaria, or cushions of the volutes exhibit varieties in this
mode of ornament.
B. one of the antae-fronts of the pier shewn in plate VII. The echinus and echines of the capitals,
as well as the flattened hollow of the canal of the volute, are carried through, and being mitred
at the angle proceed in this way to blend into the others. C. is the section at the line of the semi-
fluting. D. transverse section through the pulvinar.
E. the spiral of the helix major of the Ionic capitals, the aMy.iov of the Erechthean inscrip-
tion, the y^y-m &w«&fc to roiq xhot of Hesychius. F. section of echinus and of its spines. G. and
H. are sections of the flutings at the summit and the base of the shaft.