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CATALOGUE OK SCULPTURE.
a temple surrounded by a double colonnade, with eight
columns at the ends and twenty along the sides, and
having two columns between the antae at each end,
making a total of one hundred columns, of which the
thirty-six at the ends are the columnae caelatae.
The obvious defect in this arrangement is that the
square sculptured piers are made to serve, in a way that
is impossible, for the frieze of the temple, and no arrange-
ment can be accepted that does not provide for them.
Mr. Fergusson published a restoration with 100 columns
in 1877. For this he substituted an amended restoration
in 1883. He was aware that the piers were crowned by
circular drums or bases, and in his second attempt he
proposed a restoration in which the main features were
that the thirty-six sculptured columns were distributed
with twenty-four in the front and twelve in the back
colonnade; that square piers supported the sculptured
drums in the case of eighteen columns (with an- orna-
mental member interjected); and that (in order to make
up the 127 columns of Pliny) he placed nine columns at
the hinder end of the temple. This use of an uneven
number of columns at an end occurs rarely, and in
abnormal conditions. As regards the sculptured drums,
an arrangement by which some are placed upon the piers,
and others on a level with the piers, disturbs the hori-
zontal system characteristic of Greek architecture.
This difficulty is met in the restoration of Mr. A. S.
Murray (Figs. 8, 9), in which the piers stand on one of
the lower steps of the platform, so that their upper
surface is level with that of the stylobate. The
sculptured drums by which they are surmounted are
thus exactly level with the corresponding drums which
rest on the stylobate. The member interjected by Mr.
Fergusson between the pier and the drum is omitted as
unnecessary.
CATALOGUE OK SCULPTURE.
a temple surrounded by a double colonnade, with eight
columns at the ends and twenty along the sides, and
having two columns between the antae at each end,
making a total of one hundred columns, of which the
thirty-six at the ends are the columnae caelatae.
The obvious defect in this arrangement is that the
square sculptured piers are made to serve, in a way that
is impossible, for the frieze of the temple, and no arrange-
ment can be accepted that does not provide for them.
Mr. Fergusson published a restoration with 100 columns
in 1877. For this he substituted an amended restoration
in 1883. He was aware that the piers were crowned by
circular drums or bases, and in his second attempt he
proposed a restoration in which the main features were
that the thirty-six sculptured columns were distributed
with twenty-four in the front and twelve in the back
colonnade; that square piers supported the sculptured
drums in the case of eighteen columns (with an- orna-
mental member interjected); and that (in order to make
up the 127 columns of Pliny) he placed nine columns at
the hinder end of the temple. This use of an uneven
number of columns at an end occurs rarely, and in
abnormal conditions. As regards the sculptured drums,
an arrangement by which some are placed upon the piers,
and others on a level with the piers, disturbs the hori-
zontal system characteristic of Greek architecture.
This difficulty is met in the restoration of Mr. A. S.
Murray (Figs. 8, 9), in which the piers stand on one of
the lower steps of the platform, so that their upper
surface is level with that of the stylobate. The
sculptured drums by which they are surmounted are
thus exactly level with the corresponding drums which
rest on the stylobate. The member interjected by Mr.
Fergusson between the pier and the drum is omitted as
unnecessary.