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226 POMPEIANA.
marble in their execution1: of which material he
cut all these ornaments, as well as the whole
covering of the roof; but still adhering to the
original form and detail. His contemporaries
decreed an inscription to his memory, whereby
the honour of so ingenious an invention might
be secured to him3.
The tiles of the temple at Ecbatana were of silver.
Alexander pillaged them; but Antiochus found
some still remaining3.
In the lower part of the plate is a terra cotta eaves
tiles, in which the simple drawing of Athens,
more florid in Ionian specimens, is carried a step
farther: though complicated, it is distinct from the
confusion of the Roman.
1 For the only published specimen see the Antiquities of Attica.
2 The yftwrrai Ttwm, in the very corrupted fragment of the T^/tiry*.* of
Euripides, preserved in Galen, were in all probability the painted antefixes.
3 Polybius, 10—24.
marble in their execution1: of which material he
cut all these ornaments, as well as the whole
covering of the roof; but still adhering to the
original form and detail. His contemporaries
decreed an inscription to his memory, whereby
the honour of so ingenious an invention might
be secured to him3.
The tiles of the temple at Ecbatana were of silver.
Alexander pillaged them; but Antiochus found
some still remaining3.
In the lower part of the plate is a terra cotta eaves
tiles, in which the simple drawing of Athens,
more florid in Ionian specimens, is carried a step
farther: though complicated, it is distinct from the
confusion of the Roman.
1 For the only published specimen see the Antiquities of Attica.
2 The yftwrrai Ttwm, in the very corrupted fragment of the T^/tiry*.* of
Euripides, preserved in Galen, were in all probability the painted antefixes.
3 Polybius, 10—24.