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EXPLANATORY DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES
It is not improbable that this temple also was adorned in a similar manner, though the excellence of
the sculpture of this part may have rendered it a more desirable object of plunder.
The lion's head is a restoration authorised by numerous examples.
PLATE IV.
ORDER OF THE PERISTYLE.
The reader will perceive from the view that the frieze and cornice are entirely displaced. This
Plate represents the various component parts of the order in their relative situations. The arrises or
sharp angles of the flutes are so much destroyed, as to render it difficult to ascertain the precise dia-
meter of the columns at the step. The only one we could take at all accurately, was upon a frustum,
apparently the lower one, of the column of the SW. angle, and that was removed from its place.
The shafts of the columns were composed of six or seven frusta.
The detail of the necking is a restoration, for though the whole height and the depth of the
channels are given, the present state of the ruin did not allow of more particular measures.
To prevent the superincumbent weight of the stones of the architrave from crushing the pro-
jecting mass of the abacus, there is a slight interstice left above the abacus, which throws the weight
on the centre of the capital, and at the same time marks the outline on the soffite with greater dis-
tinctness.
The same width is given to the triglyphs and metopes that occurs in the centre of the fronts and
flanks, and which of course is the general proportion of the order. The great difference which there
is in the angular metopes and triglyphs, is a variation from the principle of the order to render the
angular intercolumniation less different from the others. The angular metope of the Parthenon is
about six inches larger than the others.
The angular head of the semi-glyph being destroyed it is here restored1.
a One of the greatest difficulties to be overcome in studying that at Delphi; in all the other temples the head appeared to me
the ruins of Grecian architecture is, to ascertain the proper me- broken away. The following examples prove how great a variety
thod of arranging the head of the angular channel or semi-glyph. occurs in this minute point of the Doric order.
In European Greece I remember only one decided example, and
W]
VH F
n
A is from a fragment found at the south-east entrance to that belonged most probably to the Temple of Minerva Pronaea,
Delphi, on the road from Lebadia and Thebes, among some ruins described by Pausanias. The section shews how the return-head
EXPLANATORY DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES
It is not improbable that this temple also was adorned in a similar manner, though the excellence of
the sculpture of this part may have rendered it a more desirable object of plunder.
The lion's head is a restoration authorised by numerous examples.
PLATE IV.
ORDER OF THE PERISTYLE.
The reader will perceive from the view that the frieze and cornice are entirely displaced. This
Plate represents the various component parts of the order in their relative situations. The arrises or
sharp angles of the flutes are so much destroyed, as to render it difficult to ascertain the precise dia-
meter of the columns at the step. The only one we could take at all accurately, was upon a frustum,
apparently the lower one, of the column of the SW. angle, and that was removed from its place.
The shafts of the columns were composed of six or seven frusta.
The detail of the necking is a restoration, for though the whole height and the depth of the
channels are given, the present state of the ruin did not allow of more particular measures.
To prevent the superincumbent weight of the stones of the architrave from crushing the pro-
jecting mass of the abacus, there is a slight interstice left above the abacus, which throws the weight
on the centre of the capital, and at the same time marks the outline on the soffite with greater dis-
tinctness.
The same width is given to the triglyphs and metopes that occurs in the centre of the fronts and
flanks, and which of course is the general proportion of the order. The great difference which there
is in the angular metopes and triglyphs, is a variation from the principle of the order to render the
angular intercolumniation less different from the others. The angular metope of the Parthenon is
about six inches larger than the others.
The angular head of the semi-glyph being destroyed it is here restored1.
a One of the greatest difficulties to be overcome in studying that at Delphi; in all the other temples the head appeared to me
the ruins of Grecian architecture is, to ascertain the proper me- broken away. The following examples prove how great a variety
thod of arranging the head of the angular channel or semi-glyph. occurs in this minute point of the Doric order.
In European Greece I remember only one decided example, and
W]
VH F
n
A is from a fragment found at the south-east entrance to that belonged most probably to the Temple of Minerva Pronaea,
Delphi, on the road from Lebadia and Thebes, among some ruins described by Pausanias. The section shews how the return-head