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Fig. 2—The plan and dimensions of the fragment of the foot in question, and an indication
that it was executed according to the flat and elongated style of Egyptian art, which the early Greek
manner much resembled.
Fig. 3. represents the body of a figure in relief, brought to England with the last-named
fragment, and also in the British Museum. We suppose it to have been executed before the Roman
conquest of Greece. This fragment is remarkable, as having belonged to a figure in relief, as large
as any known to have been executed by the Greeks. The antiquary may remark several holes drilled
in the marble at that part of the military costume, corresponding with what the ancient Greeks called
Zcoa-r^ip, (the pendent girdle,) to which probably gilded ornaments of bronze were fastened, an incident
we believe, unusual at such a part of a figure, but shewing that much importance was attached to the
enrichment of the edifice it belonged to, which must have been of extreme magnificence, and not a
sepulchral monument, for those dying at Delos were entombed at Rhenea, the neighbouring island.
Figs. 4, 5, 6.—Front, profile, and end of a marble finishing joint-tile, found near the supposed
Portico of Philip*.
Fig. 7.—A fragment of a joint-tile, found at the same site.
lugs. 8, 9, 10.—Another example of end joint-tiles, found near the same place b.
Fig. 11.—Fragment of a sima, with a sinking in the upper surface for a gutter.
Fig. 12.—Profile of a Doric cornice.
Fig. IS.—A pedestal or altar. Very many circular altars, with bulls' heads, supporting
wreaths intertwining fruit, or " encarpi" like that seen among the fragments in Fig. 1., have been re-
moved from Delos to all parts of Europe, and a great number yet remain0.
Figs. 14, 15,—plan and elevation of part of a Pillar of singular arrangement, consisting of two
gaged semi-columns of the Corinthian Order, attached to a small pilaster between them, wrought
^ the same block of marble".
^S' *6» ijt i3<—plan, front, and profile of the upper part of a marble tomb, at the adjacent
enea, the cemetery of Delos. It is imitative of the external appearance of the marble til
emples. The square sinkings were probably made for infixing figures, or ornamental urns
ing
of "1827 Pl^O^ Del°S ^ Stuart> VoL IIL C- X- PL 6- Ed- strike through Nature; the latter rite meant that Peace orHap-
b mi / piness typified by the olive could not result from their own power,
marl IT ^""^j^ bel°nging to the Grecian method of but from the beneficence of the God. The Turkish Dance of the
) e 1 mg, were iscovered before the knowledge had reached Dervisches is a parallel example of superstitious absurdity,
s ot the publication of the complete elucidation of that system, d This is a fragment similar to those whence M. Le Roy de-
in the excellent work executed by the order and at the expense rived his " Colonnes Ovales," to which he attached so much
tie r 4°C!ety °f Dllettantl> titled, « The Unedited Antiqui- unnecessary import. It is evidently of a degraded age of art,
des ° ttica'" an(i als° mdicated in the Plates 5 and 7, of the and subsequent to the Roman occupation of Greece. This pillar
a sul 1 ^ 10n °^ t^6 r^emI -Apollo Epicurius, near Phigalia, in was possibly part of a peristyle, the pilasters to which may have
ijvj, ent Part of this volume. been formed for the reception of arches or architraves supporting
teria ab 'maCnus thus invokes tnis isll»nd, 'AcrTEp;„ m*tgulM, (As- a filling in between the upper part of the Order, as that between
the altarT1"1!^ ^ altars') H>rmn- in D(?lum. v. 316. That the entire columns formerly enclosing the Mausoleum at Mylassa,
from ceremo eI°S W6re Senerally circuIar may be accounted for where a division by a pilaster, of the inside and outside semi-
says, "that°"leS alluded t0 by tnis Poet' on which the scholiast columns, may be also observed: or, the additional thickness of the
Apollo and t« ^ a fUstom at De^os to run rmm& the altar of pilaster may have been added with a view to strengthen the co-
behind them t ** h' ** W*th a W*"PJ a^so w'tn tneir arms hound lumns for the support of some unusual superstructure. Le Roy,
of solar lio-ht ° ^ ^ olivej" wflich was symbolic of the motion Les Ruines des plus beaux Mon. de la Grece. P. II. PL 32.
> and of their desire that its rays might pervade or Antiq. of Ionia, V. II. PL 29. Chandler's Trav. V. I. p. 189.
VOL. TV.
Fig. 2—The plan and dimensions of the fragment of the foot in question, and an indication
that it was executed according to the flat and elongated style of Egyptian art, which the early Greek
manner much resembled.
Fig. 3. represents the body of a figure in relief, brought to England with the last-named
fragment, and also in the British Museum. We suppose it to have been executed before the Roman
conquest of Greece. This fragment is remarkable, as having belonged to a figure in relief, as large
as any known to have been executed by the Greeks. The antiquary may remark several holes drilled
in the marble at that part of the military costume, corresponding with what the ancient Greeks called
Zcoa-r^ip, (the pendent girdle,) to which probably gilded ornaments of bronze were fastened, an incident
we believe, unusual at such a part of a figure, but shewing that much importance was attached to the
enrichment of the edifice it belonged to, which must have been of extreme magnificence, and not a
sepulchral monument, for those dying at Delos were entombed at Rhenea, the neighbouring island.
Figs. 4, 5, 6.—Front, profile, and end of a marble finishing joint-tile, found near the supposed
Portico of Philip*.
Fig. 7.—A fragment of a joint-tile, found at the same site.
lugs. 8, 9, 10.—Another example of end joint-tiles, found near the same place b.
Fig. 11.—Fragment of a sima, with a sinking in the upper surface for a gutter.
Fig. 12.—Profile of a Doric cornice.
Fig. IS.—A pedestal or altar. Very many circular altars, with bulls' heads, supporting
wreaths intertwining fruit, or " encarpi" like that seen among the fragments in Fig. 1., have been re-
moved from Delos to all parts of Europe, and a great number yet remain0.
Figs. 14, 15,—plan and elevation of part of a Pillar of singular arrangement, consisting of two
gaged semi-columns of the Corinthian Order, attached to a small pilaster between them, wrought
^ the same block of marble".
^S' *6» ijt i3<—plan, front, and profile of the upper part of a marble tomb, at the adjacent
enea, the cemetery of Delos. It is imitative of the external appearance of the marble til
emples. The square sinkings were probably made for infixing figures, or ornamental urns
ing
of "1827 Pl^O^ Del°S ^ Stuart> VoL IIL C- X- PL 6- Ed- strike through Nature; the latter rite meant that Peace orHap-
b mi / piness typified by the olive could not result from their own power,
marl IT ^""^j^ bel°nging to the Grecian method of but from the beneficence of the God. The Turkish Dance of the
) e 1 mg, were iscovered before the knowledge had reached Dervisches is a parallel example of superstitious absurdity,
s ot the publication of the complete elucidation of that system, d This is a fragment similar to those whence M. Le Roy de-
in the excellent work executed by the order and at the expense rived his " Colonnes Ovales," to which he attached so much
tie r 4°C!ety °f Dllettantl> titled, « The Unedited Antiqui- unnecessary import. It is evidently of a degraded age of art,
des ° ttica'" an(i als° mdicated in the Plates 5 and 7, of the and subsequent to the Roman occupation of Greece. This pillar
a sul 1 ^ 10n °^ t^6 r^emI -Apollo Epicurius, near Phigalia, in was possibly part of a peristyle, the pilasters to which may have
ijvj, ent Part of this volume. been formed for the reception of arches or architraves supporting
teria ab 'maCnus thus invokes tnis isll»nd, 'AcrTEp;„ m*tgulM, (As- a filling in between the upper part of the Order, as that between
the altarT1"1!^ ^ altars') H>rmn- in D(?lum. v. 316. That the entire columns formerly enclosing the Mausoleum at Mylassa,
from ceremo eI°S W6re Senerally circuIar may be accounted for where a division by a pilaster, of the inside and outside semi-
says, "that°"leS alluded t0 by tnis Poet' on which the scholiast columns, may be also observed: or, the additional thickness of the
Apollo and t« ^ a fUstom at De^os to run rmm& the altar of pilaster may have been added with a view to strengthen the co-
behind them t ** h' ** W*th a W*"PJ a^so w'tn tneir arms hound lumns for the support of some unusual superstructure. Le Roy,
of solar lio-ht ° ^ ^ olivej" wflich was symbolic of the motion Les Ruines des plus beaux Mon. de la Grece. P. II. PL 32.
> and of their desire that its rays might pervade or Antiq. of Ionia, V. II. PL 29. Chandler's Trav. V. I. p. 189.
VOL. TV.