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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
diameter, allowing for the nosing, is 38^ inches ; while
the diameter at the top of the flutes is 36/^ inches. The
lower diameter, to the bottoms of the fiutings, is 32 inches.
The lower drum is 45f inches high. The upper and
lower diameters measure 32/Gr inches and 33/^ inches
respectively. Mr. Penrose has calculated the height of
the columns as 28 feet 6 inches. (Antiqs. of Ionia, iv.,
p. 18, note 3 ; cf. Adler, p. 12, note 31.)
The transverse beam which connects the column with
the wall of the room, supposed to represent the cella of
the building, is that engraved in Newton, Hist. Disc,
pi. 27, figs. 1-4. The length with which it has been
completed was calculated from the size of the panels of the
lacunar. This is accurately given by the stone employed
(Hist. Disc, pi. 27, figs. 7-9) in which both mitre joints
are partly preserved. The length of the longer side of
the sunk panel of the lower lacunarial stone is found to
be 6 feet 11^ inches. Pullan makes the same distance
about 6 feet 8^ inches (pi. 21, fig. 2). He makes this
equal to the distance measured along the transverse beam
immediately under the moulding, and in consequence
represents the egg and tongue moulding of the transverse
beam as projecting halfway across the sunk panel.
This seems an improbable arrangement, and in the
restoration the edge of the panel has been placed 3|-
inches inside the upper edge of the transverse beam, or
1 inch inside the egg and tongue moulding. This adds
8 inches to the side of the lacunar, as compared with
Pullan. The final result is, that the distance from the
centre of the column to the top of the architrave beam
of the cella is 9 feet 3 J inches, as compared with 8 feet
4 inches measured in the corresponding position in
Pullan's plate 21, fig. 2.
"When found the lower side of the lacunar stone was
painted bright blue.
CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.
diameter, allowing for the nosing, is 38^ inches ; while
the diameter at the top of the flutes is 36/^ inches. The
lower diameter, to the bottoms of the fiutings, is 32 inches.
The lower drum is 45f inches high. The upper and
lower diameters measure 32/Gr inches and 33/^ inches
respectively. Mr. Penrose has calculated the height of
the columns as 28 feet 6 inches. (Antiqs. of Ionia, iv.,
p. 18, note 3 ; cf. Adler, p. 12, note 31.)
The transverse beam which connects the column with
the wall of the room, supposed to represent the cella of
the building, is that engraved in Newton, Hist. Disc,
pi. 27, figs. 1-4. The length with which it has been
completed was calculated from the size of the panels of the
lacunar. This is accurately given by the stone employed
(Hist. Disc, pi. 27, figs. 7-9) in which both mitre joints
are partly preserved. The length of the longer side of
the sunk panel of the lower lacunarial stone is found to
be 6 feet 11^ inches. Pullan makes the same distance
about 6 feet 8^ inches (pi. 21, fig. 2). He makes this
equal to the distance measured along the transverse beam
immediately under the moulding, and in consequence
represents the egg and tongue moulding of the transverse
beam as projecting halfway across the sunk panel.
This seems an improbable arrangement, and in the
restoration the edge of the panel has been placed 3|-
inches inside the upper edge of the transverse beam, or
1 inch inside the egg and tongue moulding. This adds
8 inches to the side of the lacunar, as compared with
Pullan. The final result is, that the distance from the
centre of the column to the top of the architrave beam
of the cella is 9 feet 3 J inches, as compared with 8 feet
4 inches measured in the corresponding position in
Pullan's plate 21, fig. 2.
"When found the lower side of the lacunar stone was
painted bright blue.