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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others Peripteres. The Monoptere is without a cell»
and has a tribunal and a platform, elevated f part of it's
diameter. Upon the stylobates, columns are erected,
in height, equal to the diameter of the platform, taken
from the extremities of the walls of the stylobates."

From the description so far, it appears, that, what
be calls the stylobates, is the circular wall, which, in
the parts right under the bases of the intended columns,
was to be something thicker, than the extent of the
base's plinth, the other parts under the intercolumn less
massy. The area within the circle filled up with infe-
rior materials to carry the pavement.

"The height of the column, including base and
capital, is divided into 10 parts, of which one is the
diameter : the epistyle is to be 3 a diameter high : the
freeze and all other things disposed, above the epistyle,
are to be as I have written in the third book."

By the conclusion of this paragraph, it appears,
that the symmetries of the columns and entablature are
Grecian, and nothing, then, in this monoptere peculi-
arly Tuscan, except the circular form. The steps to
ascend to the platform, as nothing is said of them, we
may imagine, where through the whole circuit.

" But if the Temple is a periptere," continues
Vitruvius, "there are to be 2 steps, and the stylobates
jraised from the level on which the under one stands.
Then the walls of the cell are to be erected on the
platform, at the distance from the stylobates of the
width (diameter) of the platform, and in the middle an
opening left, for the folding doors. And the diameter,
in the clear of the cell, is to be equal to the height of
the columns, which, on the etylobates in the circuit, are
to be of the same proportions and symmetries^ as in the
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