Dodwell, Edward: A classical and topographical tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806: in two volumes (Band 1) (London, 1819)

DORIC EDIFICE. 535

the grain is close, but does nor sparkle like most of the Grecian
marbles; and it is moreover of a brittle and decomposing quality.
The walls, though not in the Cyclopian or polygon style, are never-
theless systematically irregular; and the stones, though generally
quadrilateral, and placed in horizontal layers, are of various dimen-
sions, and their angles seldom rectangular.

Here are the remains of a Doric columnar edifice, which has
been inaccurately published by Le Roy, who conceives it to have
been an hexastyle temple, with thirteen columns on each side ; but
this representation is incorrect. As the whole of the ruin has fallen,
and is nearly covered with thick bushes of lentiscus, it was not
possible on my visit to develop its plan without making excava-
tions ; this was done in 1812, by the mission of the Dilettanti So-
ciety, by whom it is described with seven columns in the fronts,
and fourteen on the sides.1 The columns, which are not finished with
much precision, are about five diameters high, including the capi-
tal; the shafts are plain, except at the base, and under the capital,
where they are ornamented with twenty flutings, in the same man-
ner as some columns of Eleusis, Delos, and Rhamnos; their diameter
at the base is three feet three inches and three lines; at top, two
feet two inches two lines. The height, including the capital, is
eighteen feet five inches. Intercolumniation, seven feet six inches;
greater intercolumniation, eleven feet five inches. They have no
entasis. On the flat surface of the frusta are the marks which were
made to divide the flutings; they consist in lines radiating from
the centre of the frustum to the angle of each fluting, and have
been cut in the marble by a sharp instrument.

Unedited Antiq. of Attica.