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There is one of these stones on each side of either door-way, two of them are thus represented
in Plate XIII. Fig. 1, they are likewise expressed by Mr. Dalton, and by Mons. Le Roy (very negli-
gently indeed by the latter) in their prints of this building.
No part, either of the cornice or pediment, remain in their proper places; these were easily
thrown down, because the stones out of which they were formed, did not like the last mentioned make
part of the wall; but the surface of the wall being somewhat sunk to receive them, they were very
superficially inserted or bedded in it. As this part of the surface of the wall appears to have fitted
very exactly with the profile of the cornice, and the pitch of the pediment; it was thought sufficient
authority for restoring them both in Plate XIV. especially as many fragments were found on digging
here, that exactly fitted those traces of the cornice which still remain cut in these walls. One of these
fragments is given at Fig. 2. of this plate.
Mr. Dalton, though his print is designed only as a sketch, has faithfully expressed the general
form of the traces of this cornice and pediment, but they are strangely misrepresented by Mons. Le
Roy, in the prints he has given of the tower of the winds.
PLATE XVII.
The capital of one of the 'antse, with the vestiges of the entablature and the door-case. This
capital is destroyed, but'the traces of it remaining on the wall against which it profiled, indicate that it
was of this form. The dotted stone immediately over this capital, is the section of the architrave and
frize, which was referred to in the description of the last plate; over this is a shaded profile, repre-
senting the traces of the cornice which still remain cut into the surface of the wall, as was explained
in the foregoing plate. The mouldings of the door-case and those of the internal face of the archi-
trave are not so much defaced, as to prevent their measures and profiles from being exactly deter-
mined.
both the columns
they are without
represented, was
le top of the roof,
>itals are frequent
example of them
re taken from the
tiges of four such
they are inserted
project somewhat
rid frize.
•h is raised as if » «•
loubt formerly■«**
The custom of >*>»
,urpose of ornament»
to be observe »*
,vhen of one bio*
-7 distinct ***
PLATE XVIII.
The internal mouldings of the tower of the winds.
Fig. 1. The lower cornice1.
Fig. 2. The second cornice, enriched with dentels and modillions.
Fig. 3. The soffit of the second cornice.
Fig. * 3. The same soffit on a lesser scale, shewing the form of the angular modillions, and
of the irregular pannels on each side of them.
Fig. 4. The circular fascia, with the inferior part of one of the columns which it supports,
likewise the capital and the entablature of those columns6.
Fig. 5. Explains the manner in which the cabled part of the flutings on those columns are
terminated.
a From some indications on the upper part of this cornice of
plug-holes, &c. it is thought to have supported some superin-
cumbent objects. Mr. W. In-wood, well known as joint archi-
tect with his esteemed father of the four new churches of the parish
of St. Pancras Middlesex, who examined the Athenian edifice
with great attention, supposes that a range of appropriate sculp-
ture had formerly a place on it. Ced.]
b Similar small columns have been observed in the same rela-
tive situation in a picture of a small house at Pompeii. The
cabling to the columns, the style of the capital, the denticulated
cornice within, that to the pediments of the doors, and the cha-
racter of the anta;, tend to confirm the opinion that this edifice
is a Grecian production as late as the Augustan age. See Gell
and Gandy's Pompeiana, PI. 62. [ed.]
The dotb
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OF THE OCTOGON TOWER OF ANDRONICUS CYRRHESTES.
45
ed
nit
royed- This line
lenthe^ofWas
his ^ Plate XIV,
:he triton. ^
the lower m of
1 it down; it „0ff
i originally as We
2sent plate. p0r
le circular cavity
e Place it in tbjj
' C> Kg- 4. till it
will, by that in.
osed to view, It
a particular man-
ccount, its angles
and with those of
ure.
nder the figure of
lings with that of
There is one of these stones on each side of either door-way, two of them are thus represented
in Plate XIII. Fig. 1, they are likewise expressed by Mr. Dalton, and by Mons. Le Roy (very negli-
gently indeed by the latter) in their prints of this building.
No part, either of the cornice or pediment, remain in their proper places; these were easily
thrown down, because the stones out of which they were formed, did not like the last mentioned make
part of the wall; but the surface of the wall being somewhat sunk to receive them, they were very
superficially inserted or bedded in it. As this part of the surface of the wall appears to have fitted
very exactly with the profile of the cornice, and the pitch of the pediment; it was thought sufficient
authority for restoring them both in Plate XIV. especially as many fragments were found on digging
here, that exactly fitted those traces of the cornice which still remain cut in these walls. One of these
fragments is given at Fig. 2. of this plate.
Mr. Dalton, though his print is designed only as a sketch, has faithfully expressed the general
form of the traces of this cornice and pediment, but they are strangely misrepresented by Mons. Le
Roy, in the prints he has given of the tower of the winds.
PLATE XVII.
The capital of one of the 'antse, with the vestiges of the entablature and the door-case. This
capital is destroyed, but'the traces of it remaining on the wall against which it profiled, indicate that it
was of this form. The dotted stone immediately over this capital, is the section of the architrave and
frize, which was referred to in the description of the last plate; over this is a shaded profile, repre-
senting the traces of the cornice which still remain cut into the surface of the wall, as was explained
in the foregoing plate. The mouldings of the door-case and those of the internal face of the archi-
trave are not so much defaced, as to prevent their measures and profiles from being exactly deter-
mined.
both the columns
they are without
represented, was
le top of the roof,
>itals are frequent
example of them
re taken from the
tiges of four such
they are inserted
project somewhat
rid frize.
•h is raised as if » «•
loubt formerly■«**
The custom of >*>»
,urpose of ornament»
to be observe »*
,vhen of one bio*
-7 distinct ***
PLATE XVIII.
The internal mouldings of the tower of the winds.
Fig. 1. The lower cornice1.
Fig. 2. The second cornice, enriched with dentels and modillions.
Fig. 3. The soffit of the second cornice.
Fig. * 3. The same soffit on a lesser scale, shewing the form of the angular modillions, and
of the irregular pannels on each side of them.
Fig. 4. The circular fascia, with the inferior part of one of the columns which it supports,
likewise the capital and the entablature of those columns6.
Fig. 5. Explains the manner in which the cabled part of the flutings on those columns are
terminated.
a From some indications on the upper part of this cornice of
plug-holes, &c. it is thought to have supported some superin-
cumbent objects. Mr. W. In-wood, well known as joint archi-
tect with his esteemed father of the four new churches of the parish
of St. Pancras Middlesex, who examined the Athenian edifice
with great attention, supposes that a range of appropriate sculp-
ture had formerly a place on it. Ced.]
b Similar small columns have been observed in the same rela-
tive situation in a picture of a small house at Pompeii. The
cabling to the columns, the style of the capital, the denticulated
cornice within, that to the pediments of the doors, and the cha-
racter of the anta;, tend to confirm the opinion that this edifice
is a Grecian production as late as the Augustan age. See Gell
and Gandy's Pompeiana, PI. 62. [ed.]