Gabb, Thomas: Finis pyramidis or Disquisitions concerning the antiquity and scientific end of the great pyramid of Giza, or ancient Memphis, in Egypt, and of the first standard of linear measure (Retford, 1806)

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to which Vitruvius alludes ; some, continues Vitruviut,
assuming the disposition of the Tuscan, (he means the
first angular Temple with 8 columns in the pronaos)
transfer it to the Corinthian and Ionic ordination ; for
retaining the columns in the middle region opposite the
four antae of the walls, preserving the form of the Tus-
can, they gave the columns and intercolumns the sym-
metries proper to the Corinthian and Ionic,

And others again, omitting the side walls of the
little cells, had recourse to columns and intercolumns,
instead of them, and thus produced a more free access
to the cell left in the middle, and by disposing 5 columns
fra each side, formed a kind of wings, which work may
be called a pseudoperiptere.

Thus there are four kinds of angular Tuscan Tem-
ples, all on the same proportion of the site, viz, 5 offrent
by 6 of length, The first, with 3 cells and 8 columns
disposed in 2 rows, breadthwise, in the pronaos. The
second, with 3 cells and 6 columns, 4 in front and one
at each shoulder of the pronaos. The third, like the
first, but the work done in Corinthian or Ionic symme-
tries, instead of Tuscan. And the fourth, with the
middle cell only, and with 14 columns, 4 in front, 5 oa
each side, reckoning the front angular ones dver again,
and the 2 before the antae of the cell walls, in the mid-
dle of the area of the pronaos. It is to be observed,
that, though Vitruvius calle this a kind of false periptere,
it is a Tuscan, not a Grecian, pseudo-periptere ; from
which Grecian periptere, were the postern tow of co-
lumns taken away, there would be a pseudo-periptere
containing 24 columns.

" Now there are Rotunda Tuscan Temples," say»
Vkruviu% "of which some are called Monopteres, and

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