Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 1) (London, 1892)

THE TEMPLE AT PHIGALEIA. 273

Architectural Fragments.

505. Two fragments of the cymatium cornice, with a pattern
of palmettes alternating with palmettes of a plainer form,
springing from acanthus leaves as on the cornice of the
Erechtheion. The member to which these fragments
belong surmounted the pediments.

Marble ; height, 1 foot J inch ; width, 4 feet 2£ inches. The left-
hand fragment is engraved in 3l>is. Marbles, IV., yignette.
Synopsis, Nos. 26, 27; Cockerell, Phigaleia, pi. 6; Ellis, Elgin
and Phigaleian Marbles, II., p. 212.

506. Fragment of a Doric capital, from a column of the

external colonnade.

Limestone ; height of fragment, 1 foot 5 inches ; width. 1 foot 9 inches.
Mus. Marbles, IV., pi. 25, fig. 4 ; Synopsis, No. 24 ; cf. Cockerell,
Pldgaleia, pi. 6.

507. Fragment of the capital of one of the Doric columns of
the pronaos or opisthodomos, including the lower part of
the echinus, and the upper part of the flutings.

Limestone ; height, 5J inches ; width, 1 foot 6^ inches.

508. Fragment of the capital of one of the Ionic columns of
the interior of the cella, with a part of the fluting. These
capitals are of peculiar form, each column being connected
at the back by a cross wall with the wall of the cella
(see plan). The three exposed faces of the capital had
each a pair of Ionic volutes. In the centre of the volute
is a stud of marble separately made. The hole for it was
prepared by a series of drill holes placed so as to form a
ring-like depression, the centre of which was afterwards
worked out. The profile of the side pairs of volutes was
somewhat different to that of the front pair, whence it
can be ascertained that the fragment in the British

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