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MINERVA POLIAS, AND PANDROSUS. 67

maining, together with our ignorance in what manner the survey was taken, whether by going regu-
larly round the building, or by classing similar deficiencies together, render it very obscure, and in a
great measure unintelligible \

a The censure here levelled against this inscription by Stuart,
far exceeds the degree of obscurity, even in his time, attached
to portions of it, or the apparent carelessness of the workmen in

some few instances (but particularly at the final part of it),
who transcribed the report on the marble. Stuart knew little of the
inscription, but from the imperfect copy of Chandler, whose un-

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All the bases are unfluted in the upper * part.
All the columns are unfluted, except those upon the
wall. The whole stylobata is unpolished all round.
(These parts) of the exterior wall are unpolished.
Four feet lengths of gutter stones (To^Ao? Ai'9ou *),
VIII of which are at the entrance3; four feet lengths
towards the pilaster; four feet lengths towards the
statue; four feet lengths at the portico towards the
thyroma (doorway).
The altar of the Thyecus is not placed.
Of the flat roof, the cramps (o-tptwio-xoi *) and tyes
(Ibarra;), are not placed.

Above the portico towards the Cecropium, it is neces-
sary that three stones of the lacunaria, which are over
the damsels ('Eti ™» KOPON) should be worked at the
top, in length thirteen feet, and five feet in width5.
The flowers (t<z; y.dr>xa;e') (i. e. the present patera;,)
which are on the epistylia, it is necessary to finish.
Masonry entirely finished (lying) on the ground.
XI Tiles four feet long, two feet wide, a foot and a half
thick, (like those) incomplete.
100 I Shoulder tile, four feet long, three feet wide, a foot
and a half thick. Of each of these, the alternate joint
is not wrought, neither are the joints behind.
XII Six feet long, two feet wide, a foot thick; of each of
these the alternate joint is not wrought, neither are
the joints behind.
110 V Four feet long, two feet wide, a foot thick: of each
of these, the alternate joint is not wrought, neither are
the joints behind.

I Five feet long, two feet wide, a foot thick: of this,

the alternate joint is unwrought, nor the joints behind.
VII (Parts of) the corona (Trfa-x), four feet long, three
feet wide, five palms thick, wrought smooth, without
130 carving.

V Others, of the same magnitude, of both of which the
cymatium and astragal were unwrought four feet.

II Others.

(Of these) the cymatium was unwrought four feet,
but of the astragal eight feet.

I Of another.
130 A foot and a half of the cymatium was unwrought, of
the astragal four feet.

I Other.
The smooth work was done, but of the cymatium
there were six feet and a half unwrought, of the as-
tragal eight feet unwrought.
Ill Others.

Six feet of the cymatium unwrought, of the astragal
eight feet.

1 This means the upper torus of the bases, which, with the exception of those
of the tetrastyle portico, which are worked with a plat or guillochis, are now
found fluted. [ed ]

2 Miiller and also Boeckh read ToyytiXav Aidov, saying the phrase TavXes Aifos
is not Greek, which Rose observes (quod dubito an yere). V. Ins. Gracae, and
Boeckh. Corp. Ins. [ed.]

3 Miiller reads crpstrrotaai . . • #p°s Naroy roi^a. See de Tem. Min. Pol. or
Rose, Ins. Grac. [sd.]

* Miiller supposes this word to allude to the dentils of the Caryatic build-
ing. , !>•]

5 The blocks of marble forming the roof, supported by the six CanephorEe, were
four and correspond with the dimensions here given of three of them, then un-
finished. [ED0

6 Mr. Wilkins originally supposed this to describe the echinus ornament, called
the egg and dart, terminating the entablature over the figures; hut with greater pro-
bability, he has since applied it to the patera!, on the upper fascia of the architrave,
of this portion of the edifice, which were evidently intended to have been wrought
into a higher state of ornament; as appears from some marks and circles on one
of them at the western angle. They were meant probably to resemble those on
the antepagmenta and supercilium of the door of the tetrastyle portico of this
Temple, shewn in our Fourth Volume.

Boeckh, as if to give every variety of

140 I Other.

Half worked what relates to the smooth work.
IIII Of those (parts of) the corona, above the portico,
four feet long, three feet wide, five palms thick, are
worked smooth without the carving.

II Angular pieces (of the corona?) upon the portico to-
wards the east six feet long, three feet and a half wide,
five palms thick; of one of these the smooth work is
done, but the entire cymatium and astragal are un-
wrought ; of the other three feet and a half of the
cymatium are unworked, and five feet of the astragal
unwrought.

I On the wall towards the Pandroseum, seven feet and a
half long, three feet and a half wide, the smooth work
is half done.
I Six7 feet long, three feet and a palm wide, five palms
thick, which is also on the wall towards the Pandro-
seum. Of this five feet are unwrought of the astragal.
VI Stones of the Tympanum (ASeti«im sc. Ai'8ois), of those
belonging to the porticos, in length seven feet, in width
three feet and a half, and one foot thick, are half
worked.
170 II Others five feet long, three feet and a half wide, one
foot thick, are half worked.

The corona above the pediments, two feet and a half
wide, four feet and a half long, a foot wide, (what re-
gards) the smooth work is completed.
I Other half finished (with regard to) the smooth work.
,s'> II The marble door-frames, eight feet and a jialm long,
two feet and a half wide.
IV These others are, however, completed : but it is neces-
sary to place the black marble over the supercilium,
Or*9).
I Console (oij) to the door lintel (mlf&vpoy), towards the
east, is half worked.

III Pentelic marbles to the altar of the Thyecus, four feet
long, two feet and one palm high, one foot thick.

I Other three feet."

The above translation is founded on the very excellent ap-
proximation to an entire elucidation of this inscription by Mr.
Wilkins, compared with the subsequent versions of it by M. G.
O. Miiller, of Gottingen, and by Mr. Rose, of Cambridge, to
whose works the learned reader is referred.

Vide Chandler's Ins. Ant. PI. II. In. 1. Vitr. Schneideri,
Vol. II. p. 260. Wilkins's Atheniensia, and Walpole's Memoirs,
Vol. I. p. 591. G. O. Miiller de Min. Pol. Templo. Pose, Ins.
Graca;, p. 130. Boeckh. Corpus Ins. Grasc. PI. II. Ch. II. p.
264. [ed.]

construction to the word KdX^} applies it to the ogee carved with the Grecian
leaf, beneath the dentils of this entablature over the female statues. See Walpole's
Memoirs, Vol. I. p. 595. Inscriptiones Grsecee, a H. J. Hose, p. 197. Corp.
Ins. Grjec. V. I. p. 282; [ed.]

7 Mr. Rose calls this part of the inscription from L. 156 to 165, " locus
vexatissimus": possibly this perplexity arises from the omission of some word or
letters by the carelessness of the workman who engraved it. Chandler introduced
the marginal number I, which has been followed by others, which was never seen
on the marble. See Rose Ins. Grsecse, p. 203. [ed.]

8 Visconti, in the Fourth Volume of the" Museo Pio Clementino, p. 89, may be
referred to in explanation of this term, where lie gives ajust tribute to the merit of
our learned countryman, Dr. Chandler, rashly called in question, on the subject
of this inscription, by G. O. Miiller, who, profiting of his researches, and those of
Schneider and Wjjkins, would uncandidly depreciate the literary labours of his
English precursors on this subject, the steps to his own supposed superior com-
prehension of this antiquity. [ED-]

0 There is no frieze or place for the black marble here mentioned at the door-
way, now nearly perfect, of the tetrastyle portico; consequently, the Eleusiniah
marble must have formed part of the principal or eastern doorway alone, of which
the succeeding passage regarding the console specifies the aspect. This doorway
is not now in existence. [Ep-]

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