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ATHENIAN ARCHITECTURE. 17
three, till four and twenty are completed, the greatest number: the numbers for the first revolution
being from the diameter of the eye, but those for the second from the outer line of the first, and
for the third from the outer line of the second.
At one of the bottom angles of the Plate is the plan, shewing the leaves on the return of the
volute, and at the angle over it is the side elevation, the leaves being precisely the same as the
upper leaves of the Corinthian capitals of the Athenian octogon temple of the Winds. As a
vignette to Stuart's third volume is a double capital, with leaves somewhat similar, and the return
of the antae capitals of the propylaeum at Priene are also with that description of leaf.
PLATE XXII. OF THE TEMPLE CALLED PARTHENON.
At the top of the Plate are the three elevations of one of the ornaments that crowned the cornice
along the two sides of the Parthenon, in continuation of those sculptured terminating the return
side of the acroteria. The fragment was found in the Acropolis, and is the same as shewn in a
wall in the first view of the Erechtheion in Stuart's second volume ; the points of the ornament in
the upper part nearly as there shewn are broken, but have been obtained perfect in the drawing
by the favour of Mr. W. J. Booth, who brought from Athens a cast of the front of one remaining
perfect on the building carved on the acroterium. Below the elevation of the ornament is the
plan taken underneath, shewing the two recesses for tenons, by which it was fixed on to the top
of the cornice, the depth up of which tenons is seen dotted in the side elevation ; and the inclined
line of the under part of the ornament is also there seen taking the form of the top of the cornice.
The back of the honeysuckle ornament itself near the top is merely splayed as an angle to an
arris in the centre, the form of which is seen drawn at the side. On the back elevation the dotted
line shews the pointed form of the rib, taken at the extremity of the fragment, including the
inclination of its under side.
Underneath is a fragment with the maeander ornament, found in one of the houses of the lower
city on the north side of the Acropolis; above it is a section taken parallel to the elevation, and on
the opposite side a lateral section. There might perhaps be urged a doubt whether this is a frag-
ment of the Parthenon or of the propylaeum. To the propylaeum crowning the inner part of the
architrave over the colonnade of the western portico, and continuing round the interior of the
centre vestibule, is the same fascia and moldings of similar size. Within the propylaeum however
most of that molding remains in its place, and from its entire exposure to the open atmosphere
the traces of the painting is only slightly in one part perceptible; but to the Parthenon, where any
part of the molding remains, the painting is nearly perfect, as in the present fragment: it was
applied over the frieze of the inner peristyle of that temple, going entirely round, and the same
opposite to it at the back of the outer peristyle, as seen in Stuart and Revett's Plate iv. of this
temple. Of the maeander ornament it is seen of the same design, applied either to the Ionic as in
the Erechtheion, or to the Doric as in this instance. The line up and profile of the molding
forming the angle is supposed, and only suggested as the readiest way in which the maeander
ornament might have terminated. In the section above is seen the deep mortice for the metal
three, till four and twenty are completed, the greatest number: the numbers for the first revolution
being from the diameter of the eye, but those for the second from the outer line of the first, and
for the third from the outer line of the second.
At one of the bottom angles of the Plate is the plan, shewing the leaves on the return of the
volute, and at the angle over it is the side elevation, the leaves being precisely the same as the
upper leaves of the Corinthian capitals of the Athenian octogon temple of the Winds. As a
vignette to Stuart's third volume is a double capital, with leaves somewhat similar, and the return
of the antae capitals of the propylaeum at Priene are also with that description of leaf.
PLATE XXII. OF THE TEMPLE CALLED PARTHENON.
At the top of the Plate are the three elevations of one of the ornaments that crowned the cornice
along the two sides of the Parthenon, in continuation of those sculptured terminating the return
side of the acroteria. The fragment was found in the Acropolis, and is the same as shewn in a
wall in the first view of the Erechtheion in Stuart's second volume ; the points of the ornament in
the upper part nearly as there shewn are broken, but have been obtained perfect in the drawing
by the favour of Mr. W. J. Booth, who brought from Athens a cast of the front of one remaining
perfect on the building carved on the acroterium. Below the elevation of the ornament is the
plan taken underneath, shewing the two recesses for tenons, by which it was fixed on to the top
of the cornice, the depth up of which tenons is seen dotted in the side elevation ; and the inclined
line of the under part of the ornament is also there seen taking the form of the top of the cornice.
The back of the honeysuckle ornament itself near the top is merely splayed as an angle to an
arris in the centre, the form of which is seen drawn at the side. On the back elevation the dotted
line shews the pointed form of the rib, taken at the extremity of the fragment, including the
inclination of its under side.
Underneath is a fragment with the maeander ornament, found in one of the houses of the lower
city on the north side of the Acropolis; above it is a section taken parallel to the elevation, and on
the opposite side a lateral section. There might perhaps be urged a doubt whether this is a frag-
ment of the Parthenon or of the propylaeum. To the propylaeum crowning the inner part of the
architrave over the colonnade of the western portico, and continuing round the interior of the
centre vestibule, is the same fascia and moldings of similar size. Within the propylaeum however
most of that molding remains in its place, and from its entire exposure to the open atmosphere
the traces of the painting is only slightly in one part perceptible; but to the Parthenon, where any
part of the molding remains, the painting is nearly perfect, as in the present fragment: it was
applied over the frieze of the inner peristyle of that temple, going entirely round, and the same
opposite to it at the back of the outer peristyle, as seen in Stuart and Revett's Plate iv. of this
temple. Of the maeander ornament it is seen of the same design, applied either to the Ionic as in
the Erechtheion, or to the Doric as in this instance. The line up and profile of the molding
forming the angle is supposed, and only suggested as the readiest way in which the maeander
ornament might have terminated. In the section above is seen the deep mortice for the metal