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CHAPTER VIII.
OF AN IONIC COLONNADE NEAR THE LANTERN OF DEMOSTHENES.
Near the Lantern of Demosthenes are the remains of an Ionic colonnade, now part of an oil mill j
they consist of three columns erect, of which two, with their architrave, are in their original situation.
The workmanship is very rude and unfinished, from which circumstances they were probably
never intended to be much exposed to sight. The columns are of a grayish marble, and the shafts
each of one piece. The bases have no plinths, and the intercolumniation is three diameters and a
half. We observed in the capitals some remarkable singularities. Though it is not possible to dis-
cover what this building was, it is undoubtedly a part of a considerable edifice3.
PLATE XXXIX.
Fig. 1. Elevation of the columns.
Fig. g. Plan of ditto.
Fig. S. Plan of the capital.
Fig. 4. Flank of ditto.
Fig. 5. Section through the front of ditto.
Fig. 6. Section through the flank of ditto.
Fig. 7. The spiral line of the volute, by a larger scale.
Fig. 8. The section of the volute and abacus.
Fig. 9. Eye of the volute. " This scheme of tracing the volute, Mr. Revett discovered by some
marks of the compass in the eye of the volute of the original capital."b
PLATE XL.
Fig. 1. The base, capital, architrave, and frieze.
Fig. 2. Profile of the internal face of the architrave.
The Head-piece shewn « at Plate XXXV. Fig. 5." is a basso-relievo, of very ordinary work-
manship', in the wall of the School, near the Megale Panagia, at Athens.
' These columns have been conjectured by Col. Leake to be " See a remark on this Volute in Preface at p. 9. [ed.]
Part of the Temple of Juno and Jupiter Panhellenius, spoken • The inscriptions inserted over this relief, though seen m the
of by P • v it bv Hadrian • but the style of the same wall, it is concluded, did not belong to one subject. They
architectureTthe\Ises being without plinths, and the architrave are given by Chandler nearly as follow, as from two different
being divided into three equal fascia;) indicates a more early marbles, and the character of the letters appears to be dissimilar:
date. The width of the intercolumniations would lead to the .^^ n.,™^™,*
conclusion, that these columns belonged to the penstylium of ape- N()e0^ K«wu?S»TOt
ribolus, rather than to that of the body of a temple. Theypossibly ^ r^wrfc.
were part of a Gymnasium. The ancient architect appears to have ^
felt it necessary to increase the strength of the epistylium, on ac- S
count of the extensive intercolumniations, by executing the frieze It is therefore doubtful to which of these ladies this monumental
conjunctively with it in the same block of marble, in the mode sculpture was appropriated
that has been remarked at the Aqueduct of Hadrian. V.Leake's Such valedictory sepulchral reliefs are very frequent on
ToPy. of Athens, p. 135- Paus. Att. C. XVIII. [ed.] Grecian stela;. Antiquaries do not appear to be quite decided
OF AN IONIC COLONNADE NEAR THE LANTERN OF DEMOSTHENES.
Near the Lantern of Demosthenes are the remains of an Ionic colonnade, now part of an oil mill j
they consist of three columns erect, of which two, with their architrave, are in their original situation.
The workmanship is very rude and unfinished, from which circumstances they were probably
never intended to be much exposed to sight. The columns are of a grayish marble, and the shafts
each of one piece. The bases have no plinths, and the intercolumniation is three diameters and a
half. We observed in the capitals some remarkable singularities. Though it is not possible to dis-
cover what this building was, it is undoubtedly a part of a considerable edifice3.
PLATE XXXIX.
Fig. 1. Elevation of the columns.
Fig. g. Plan of ditto.
Fig. S. Plan of the capital.
Fig. 4. Flank of ditto.
Fig. 5. Section through the front of ditto.
Fig. 6. Section through the flank of ditto.
Fig. 7. The spiral line of the volute, by a larger scale.
Fig. 8. The section of the volute and abacus.
Fig. 9. Eye of the volute. " This scheme of tracing the volute, Mr. Revett discovered by some
marks of the compass in the eye of the volute of the original capital."b
PLATE XL.
Fig. 1. The base, capital, architrave, and frieze.
Fig. 2. Profile of the internal face of the architrave.
The Head-piece shewn « at Plate XXXV. Fig. 5." is a basso-relievo, of very ordinary work-
manship', in the wall of the School, near the Megale Panagia, at Athens.
' These columns have been conjectured by Col. Leake to be " See a remark on this Volute in Preface at p. 9. [ed.]
Part of the Temple of Juno and Jupiter Panhellenius, spoken • The inscriptions inserted over this relief, though seen m the
of by P • v it bv Hadrian • but the style of the same wall, it is concluded, did not belong to one subject. They
architectureTthe\Ises being without plinths, and the architrave are given by Chandler nearly as follow, as from two different
being divided into three equal fascia;) indicates a more early marbles, and the character of the letters appears to be dissimilar:
date. The width of the intercolumniations would lead to the .^^ n.,™^™,*
conclusion, that these columns belonged to the penstylium of ape- N()e0^ K«wu?S»TOt
ribolus, rather than to that of the body of a temple. Theypossibly ^ r^wrfc.
were part of a Gymnasium. The ancient architect appears to have ^
felt it necessary to increase the strength of the epistylium, on ac- S
count of the extensive intercolumniations, by executing the frieze It is therefore doubtful to which of these ladies this monumental
conjunctively with it in the same block of marble, in the mode sculpture was appropriated
that has been remarked at the Aqueduct of Hadrian. V.Leake's Such valedictory sepulchral reliefs are very frequent on
ToPy. of Athens, p. 135- Paus. Att. C. XVIII. [ed.] Grecian stela;. Antiquaries do not appear to be quite decided