Falkener, Edward: Ephesus and the temple of Diana (London, 1862)

262 TEMPLE OF DIANA.

that colour was used in architecture at a very early
epoch; while the terra-cotta cornices of the houses
at Pompeii show that its use was continued to a
late period.

The capitals of the Parthenon are said by one
writer to have been ornamented with a small pal-
mette ; and possibly the inner and outer rows of the
pronaos and posticum varied from each other. The
coloured capitals from which one of the houses at
Pompeii takes its name, I regard as extremely in-
teresting, it being one of the last examples in which
this ancient principle was carried out, and to the
existence of which it in a manner testifies.

On a similar principle, and producing a similar
effect, the capitals of the double temple called the
Basilica, at Paastum, are distinguished from each
other, and diversified, by delicate ornaments carved
in the hypotrachelion, or neck of the capital, and
which are shown in Wilkins's " Magna Grascia,"
(vi. plate 15.) But the most interesting example
connected with this snbject is the northern portico
of the Temple of Minerva Polias at Athens. The
group of bnildings, of which this forms a part,
is divided into three parts. Of the Temple of
Pandrosus, being in a different style of archi-
tecture, it is not requisite to speak. The eastern
front of the Temple of Minerva Polias is a
hexastyle monopteral portico, or having a pro-
jection of only one intercolumniation; while the
northern portico is tetrastyle pseudo-dipteral, or