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INTRODUCTION.

is very evident in this latter example, where not
only is an arch on two columns put for the Avhole
temple, but the head of the divinity on a pedestal
is made to indicate the entire statue.

Another instance might be cited in the ridge tiles
and antefixas of the ancient temple, the feeling of
which is sometimes attempted to be expressed in
the scolloped ornament of the pediment.

It will be objected that all these coins are Roman :
but it must be remembered that the autonomous
coins of Greece never exhibit temples, the temple
being always indicated by the figure of the divinity
to whom it was sacred, or as frequently by an
emblem of the divinity. But though the coins were
executed in Roman times, the temples shown on
them, as on one of these examples, may be Greek.
It will be further objected that the coin here given

been supposed by the learned. I leave the subject for numis-
matologists to decide, and merely refer to it to show that I
have not adhered to the general opinion without consideration.
Animated, as all antiquaries should be, by the like zeal for truth,
and love of art, a difference of opinion in details must yet always
be expected.