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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
The first restoration of the main structure was made by
Sir C. Fellows, whose result is embodied in the model
exhibited in the Nereid Eoom, and is published in his Ionic
Trophy Monument, frontispiece (reprinted in Travels and
Researches, p. 458) (see fig. 1). For a jdan of the model
see Mus. of Class. Antiq., i., p. 257. According to this
arrangement the building had four columns at the ends,
and five at the sides. The first objection to it is that the
structure fits the base badly. This fact is seen in the
original model, but is suppressed in the published
drawings. Other difficulties in Sir C. Fellows's plan are
the unsatisfactory arrangement of the lacunaria and the
exceptional inequalities of the intercolumniations. For
these and other reasons a revised restoration was mado
by E. Falkenor, which has been generally accepted as
correct (Mus. of Glass. Antiq., i., p. 256, and plates;
Overbeck, Gr. Blast., 4th ed., ii., p. 191). Mr. Falkenoi's
restoration has four columns at the ends and six instead
of five at the sides. The building is thus made to
harmonise better with the base and with the elements
deduced from the lacunaria and the third frieze.
The width of the ends can be fixed either by the
dimensions of the pediment, of which enough elements
remain for a restoration, or from calculations based on
the width of the substructure and intercolumniations.
Falkener, working on paper, obtained an extreme width,
from cymation to oymation, of 22 feet 11-15 inches. The
same dimension on the pediment which has been actually
restored, in the Nereid Eoom, is 25 feet 8^ inches. The
discrepancy arises from the fact that Falkener's dimen-
sions were calculated from the intercolumniation, and in
order to agree with this result he assumed that the lower
part of the tympanum was sunk within a rebate, which
would have the effect of reducing the height, and there-
fore, since the pitch is known, the width of the pediment.
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
The first restoration of the main structure was made by
Sir C. Fellows, whose result is embodied in the model
exhibited in the Nereid Eoom, and is published in his Ionic
Trophy Monument, frontispiece (reprinted in Travels and
Researches, p. 458) (see fig. 1). For a jdan of the model
see Mus. of Class. Antiq., i., p. 257. According to this
arrangement the building had four columns at the ends,
and five at the sides. The first objection to it is that the
structure fits the base badly. This fact is seen in the
original model, but is suppressed in the published
drawings. Other difficulties in Sir C. Fellows's plan are
the unsatisfactory arrangement of the lacunaria and the
exceptional inequalities of the intercolumniations. For
these and other reasons a revised restoration was mado
by E. Falkenor, which has been generally accepted as
correct (Mus. of Glass. Antiq., i., p. 256, and plates;
Overbeck, Gr. Blast., 4th ed., ii., p. 191). Mr. Falkenoi's
restoration has four columns at the ends and six instead
of five at the sides. The building is thus made to
harmonise better with the base and with the elements
deduced from the lacunaria and the third frieze.
The width of the ends can be fixed either by the
dimensions of the pediment, of which enough elements
remain for a restoration, or from calculations based on
the width of the substructure and intercolumniations.
Falkener, working on paper, obtained an extreme width,
from cymation to oymation, of 22 feet 11-15 inches. The
same dimension on the pediment which has been actually
restored, in the Nereid Eoom, is 25 feet 8^ inches. The
discrepancy arises from the fact that Falkener's dimen-
sions were calculated from the intercolumniation, and in
order to agree with this result he assumed that the lower
part of the tympanum was sunk within a rebate, which
would have the effect of reducing the height, and there-
fore, since the pitch is known, the width of the pediment.