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erected wall round the city. It is highly probable that a colonnade adorned the entire inward circuit of
this peribolus, though no remains of it now appear; and also that there were staircases leading to the top
of the temple, which are not inserted in the plan, from the doubt in what part they might have been.
The line on the north side is supposed to have been equally distant from the temple with that
on the South, but there were no visible remains of it. Mr. Reveley has not found among Mr. Stuart's
papers any authority whatever for the description in Chap. I. Vol. II. p. 57, viz. ' Three other
columns, belonging to the inner row of the southern flank of the temple, were standing at some dis-
tance from those above mentioned; and there remained one, marked F in this plan, which originally
stood in the western portico. The last-mentioned column proves, that when this temple was entire,
it had one-and-twenty columns on its flank ; for, if a right line is drawn from east to west, through the
centres of the outward columns " at D ", it will be cut exactly in the centre of the twentieth column
of that row " at E", by another line drawn at right angles to it from the centre of the column F, the
base of which proves it was not in the front of the portico, but had another row of columns standing
before it.' &c.
Where any difference appears between the parts of this temple given in Plate XVI of the first
chapter in the second volume, and those of the present chapter, the latter only are to be esteemed
accurate." [n.]
PLATE XVIII.
A. The base of the external columns, and of that marked E in Plate XVII, proving it to have
been an external column.
B. The base of the internal columns, of which the plinth is continued, and forms a step en-
tirely round the temple.
C. Profile of the astragala at the top of the shafts of the columns drawn by the eye from
below b.
D. Plan of a column, with its flutings.
E. Profile of the internal architraves and internal face of the external architrave, being the
same height as
F. Profile of the external face of the external architrave.
G. Part of the wall of the peribolus on the South side, shewing the angular buttress.
H. Section of the same, showing its inclination, with a buttress in profile.
The Head-piece to this chapter in Plate XV. Fig. 2. is a fragment on the outside of the church
of St. Georgio Pico (called the Vescovato, from being the residence of the bishop) at Athens c.
The Tail-piece Plate XV. Fig. 1. is another fragment in the wall of the church at Vari, by the
side of the church-door ; on the other side of which is another almost similar to itd.
have plinths, and are in height the semi-diameter of their co- b In the preface to this volume by Reveley, at p. 8, he gives
lumns; but the internal have none, and are placed upon a step a description of the capitals of these columns also from ocular
which raised the pavement, within the internal range of the dip- observation. Ted.]
teros, its whole height above that within the external, on which c This marble represents two vases with two shields, and not
account the internal columns are less in altitude than the exter- patera; as represented in the previous edition. Vases were tro-
nal by the height of the step, as well as less in diameter. The phies at the Panathenai'c games,. and gymnastic triumphs were
mouldings also of the internal bases are much higher than those inscribed on shields. See Vol. I. PI. II. fig. ], and the names
of the external'; nor have they any connexion with each ether, ex- of the games where the wrestler Marcus Tullius had van-
cept in the diameter of their lower torus; but the mouldings of the quished, engraved on representations of shields, in the inscription
internal being higher, have a greater 'relative' projecture,which (as also at the Catholicon at Athens, given at p. 372 of Wheler's
the diameter of the lower torus is the same in both) contracts the Travels. Ted."]
upper torus, and makes it less than in the external bases." [ji.] d This was a fragment of a sepulchral stele; the name in-
* It is an unfortunate circumstance that modern Athens did scribed on it is read,
not afford ladders of sufficient height, or other means of arriving APlETOMAXH
at the capital, architrave, and frieze of this temple, which, for that BOTAAPXOT
reason, could not be measured2. CED-!1
' These circumstances indicate a priority of style; and were it not known from army, effected an ascent to the summit of this ruin by means of a line thrown over
Vitruvius that Cossutius formed the dipteral arrangement of the temple, " colum- the architrave, when a ship's rope was drawn over it, to which a rope ladder was
narum circa dipteron collocationem," it might be thence concluded that the inte- afterwards attached: an operation resembling that by which Pompey's pillar was
rior ranges of columns were raised by Antiochus Epiphanes, and the external ones ascended. On this occasion Mr. Vulliamy succeeded, but with much difficulty
during the reigns of Augustus and Hadrian. [ei>.] and risk, in taking the desired dimensions of the capital and architrave, which it is
3 With great enterprise Mr. Lewis Vulliamy, the architect, on the 18th of Jan. proposed to introduce in the supplement to this work. [ed.!
J880, through the assistance of Capt. Stoddart, R. N. and Capt. Jones, of the
erected wall round the city. It is highly probable that a colonnade adorned the entire inward circuit of
this peribolus, though no remains of it now appear; and also that there were staircases leading to the top
of the temple, which are not inserted in the plan, from the doubt in what part they might have been.
The line on the north side is supposed to have been equally distant from the temple with that
on the South, but there were no visible remains of it. Mr. Reveley has not found among Mr. Stuart's
papers any authority whatever for the description in Chap. I. Vol. II. p. 57, viz. ' Three other
columns, belonging to the inner row of the southern flank of the temple, were standing at some dis-
tance from those above mentioned; and there remained one, marked F in this plan, which originally
stood in the western portico. The last-mentioned column proves, that when this temple was entire,
it had one-and-twenty columns on its flank ; for, if a right line is drawn from east to west, through the
centres of the outward columns " at D ", it will be cut exactly in the centre of the twentieth column
of that row " at E", by another line drawn at right angles to it from the centre of the column F, the
base of which proves it was not in the front of the portico, but had another row of columns standing
before it.' &c.
Where any difference appears between the parts of this temple given in Plate XVI of the first
chapter in the second volume, and those of the present chapter, the latter only are to be esteemed
accurate." [n.]
PLATE XVIII.
A. The base of the external columns, and of that marked E in Plate XVII, proving it to have
been an external column.
B. The base of the internal columns, of which the plinth is continued, and forms a step en-
tirely round the temple.
C. Profile of the astragala at the top of the shafts of the columns drawn by the eye from
below b.
D. Plan of a column, with its flutings.
E. Profile of the internal architraves and internal face of the external architrave, being the
same height as
F. Profile of the external face of the external architrave.
G. Part of the wall of the peribolus on the South side, shewing the angular buttress.
H. Section of the same, showing its inclination, with a buttress in profile.
The Head-piece to this chapter in Plate XV. Fig. 2. is a fragment on the outside of the church
of St. Georgio Pico (called the Vescovato, from being the residence of the bishop) at Athens c.
The Tail-piece Plate XV. Fig. 1. is another fragment in the wall of the church at Vari, by the
side of the church-door ; on the other side of which is another almost similar to itd.
have plinths, and are in height the semi-diameter of their co- b In the preface to this volume by Reveley, at p. 8, he gives
lumns; but the internal have none, and are placed upon a step a description of the capitals of these columns also from ocular
which raised the pavement, within the internal range of the dip- observation. Ted.]
teros, its whole height above that within the external, on which c This marble represents two vases with two shields, and not
account the internal columns are less in altitude than the exter- patera; as represented in the previous edition. Vases were tro-
nal by the height of the step, as well as less in diameter. The phies at the Panathenai'c games,. and gymnastic triumphs were
mouldings also of the internal bases are much higher than those inscribed on shields. See Vol. I. PI. II. fig. ], and the names
of the external'; nor have they any connexion with each ether, ex- of the games where the wrestler Marcus Tullius had van-
cept in the diameter of their lower torus; but the mouldings of the quished, engraved on representations of shields, in the inscription
internal being higher, have a greater 'relative' projecture,which (as also at the Catholicon at Athens, given at p. 372 of Wheler's
the diameter of the lower torus is the same in both) contracts the Travels. Ted."]
upper torus, and makes it less than in the external bases." [ji.] d This was a fragment of a sepulchral stele; the name in-
* It is an unfortunate circumstance that modern Athens did scribed on it is read,
not afford ladders of sufficient height, or other means of arriving APlETOMAXH
at the capital, architrave, and frieze of this temple, which, for that BOTAAPXOT
reason, could not be measured2. CED-!1
' These circumstances indicate a priority of style; and were it not known from army, effected an ascent to the summit of this ruin by means of a line thrown over
Vitruvius that Cossutius formed the dipteral arrangement of the temple, " colum- the architrave, when a ship's rope was drawn over it, to which a rope ladder was
narum circa dipteron collocationem," it might be thence concluded that the inte- afterwards attached: an operation resembling that by which Pompey's pillar was
rior ranges of columns were raised by Antiochus Epiphanes, and the external ones ascended. On this occasion Mr. Vulliamy succeeded, but with much difficulty
during the reigns of Augustus and Hadrian. [ei>.] and risk, in taking the desired dimensions of the capital and architrave, which it is
3 With great enterprise Mr. Lewis Vulliamy, the architect, on the 18th of Jan. proposed to introduce in the supplement to this work. [ed.!
J880, through the assistance of Capt. Stoddart, R. N. and Capt. Jones, of the