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OF THE TEMPLE OF APOLLO EPICURIUS.
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The actual projection of the cavetto of the Stillicidium beyond the bird's-beak moulding might
be more or less advanced. The application of the profile of the cima recta, instead of the ovolo, as
the crowning moulding, is peculiar to this example in European Greece, but in Asia Minor it fre-
quently occurs. It will be observed, that the ornament of the sima is neither at right angles to the in-
clination of the pediment, nor to the horizon, but between the two.
PLATE V.
ENTABLATURE OF THE ORDER OF THE PERISTYLE AND ROOF.
Fig. 1. Section through the frieze and cornice.
The head of the channel of the triglyph is cut upwards to gain depth of shade. None of the
guttae of the mutules are cut out of the solid, but have joggles which are fastened into the matrices
prepared on the soffite of the mutules : that is, each drop is a small cylindrical piece of stone let into
the holes sunk in the substance of the mutules. Some of the guttae of the great temple at Selinus
in Sicily and at Pactum are managed in the same manner. A perspective view of one of the guttte
is given to a larger scale.
Fig. 2, 3, and 4 represent the section and elevations of the tiles and ante-fixas, which were
of marble \ It is to be observed that, instead of the more general practice of agpoi or narrow
joint tiles, extending from the ridge to the eaves so as to cover the joints of the flat tiles, in order to
prevent the admission of the rain, here each tile with its ag[M>g forms one slab cut out of the solid
marble. The distance between each ante-fixa is presumed so as to give four ante-fixaa- to each in-
tercolumniation.
Fig. .5. Section of the raking cornice of the pediment.
Fig. 6. The ornament of the sima more at large. Each block of marble comprehends two
complete leaves of each variety in lengths of two feet one inch and a quarter.
PLATE VI.
DETAILS OF THE DORIC CAPITALS.
Fig. 1. Capital of the Doric order of the peristyles to a larger scale.
The proportions of this order approach very near to those of the Doric of the Parthenon, but
the capital is not in effect so striking as that of the Temple of Theseus, the greater projection of
the abacus of which gives more boldness of character to the echinus.
The present dilapidated state of the various blocks of stone did not allow us, as I have observed
or profile of the semiglyph rises on the side higher than the
bottom of the fascia of the triglyph, as it does also in the Par-
thenon, Thescum, and Propylaea at Athens. B is from Hera-
clea near Miletus, erroneously called Mius by Chandler; C and
D are from Priene. The extraordinary example of E with a
gutta to occupy the space, is at Halicarnassus, but the whole
order of which it forms a part is of an inferior age and character,
of Grecian art. P is from the Doric Portico of the Agora at
Athens, according to Stuart. For the example G, I am in-
debted to Mr. J. Angell, who met with it in the Acropolis of
Selinus in Sicily. Mr. J. P. Gandy has favoured me with one of
the triglyphs at Prcstum H, and with the very singular arrange-
ment of I, discovered by him among the ruins of Gnidus. I was
very anxious to ascertain this point in the Parthenon, the Pro-
pylcea, and Temple of Theseus, and had the work of Stuart with
me, but could not, after a very minute research, find any one
semiglyph sufficiently entire to prove decidedly that his arrangc-
VOL. IV.
ment was not a restoration founded upon some other authority.
It is to be observed that the Asiatic examples are not from
temples, but from agora; and other civil edifices.
a In a passage from Pausanias already quoted (p. 4. n. h) the
original describes the whole temple to be (aiOgu) of stone, and
which word is by many authors translated ' marble', as in the
edition of Paris, 1820, by Monsieur Clavier, which has the text
corrected by that eminent scholar, Dr. Coray. The fact however
is, that the capitals of the Ionic columns, the ceilings, roof, and
sculptures, are of fine white granular foliated Greek statuary
marble, resembling Pentelic: whereas all the other parts of the
temple are of a compact lime stone of a light drab (white lias)
color, which becomes white by the action of the atmosphere after
long exposure, and is penetrated by contemporaneous veins of a
harder variety of the same substance. This stone is capable of
receiving a very high polish.
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The actual projection of the cavetto of the Stillicidium beyond the bird's-beak moulding might
be more or less advanced. The application of the profile of the cima recta, instead of the ovolo, as
the crowning moulding, is peculiar to this example in European Greece, but in Asia Minor it fre-
quently occurs. It will be observed, that the ornament of the sima is neither at right angles to the in-
clination of the pediment, nor to the horizon, but between the two.
PLATE V.
ENTABLATURE OF THE ORDER OF THE PERISTYLE AND ROOF.
Fig. 1. Section through the frieze and cornice.
The head of the channel of the triglyph is cut upwards to gain depth of shade. None of the
guttae of the mutules are cut out of the solid, but have joggles which are fastened into the matrices
prepared on the soffite of the mutules : that is, each drop is a small cylindrical piece of stone let into
the holes sunk in the substance of the mutules. Some of the guttae of the great temple at Selinus
in Sicily and at Pactum are managed in the same manner. A perspective view of one of the guttte
is given to a larger scale.
Fig. 2, 3, and 4 represent the section and elevations of the tiles and ante-fixas, which were
of marble \ It is to be observed that, instead of the more general practice of agpoi or narrow
joint tiles, extending from the ridge to the eaves so as to cover the joints of the flat tiles, in order to
prevent the admission of the rain, here each tile with its ag[M>g forms one slab cut out of the solid
marble. The distance between each ante-fixa is presumed so as to give four ante-fixaa- to each in-
tercolumniation.
Fig. .5. Section of the raking cornice of the pediment.
Fig. 6. The ornament of the sima more at large. Each block of marble comprehends two
complete leaves of each variety in lengths of two feet one inch and a quarter.
PLATE VI.
DETAILS OF THE DORIC CAPITALS.
Fig. 1. Capital of the Doric order of the peristyles to a larger scale.
The proportions of this order approach very near to those of the Doric of the Parthenon, but
the capital is not in effect so striking as that of the Temple of Theseus, the greater projection of
the abacus of which gives more boldness of character to the echinus.
The present dilapidated state of the various blocks of stone did not allow us, as I have observed
or profile of the semiglyph rises on the side higher than the
bottom of the fascia of the triglyph, as it does also in the Par-
thenon, Thescum, and Propylaea at Athens. B is from Hera-
clea near Miletus, erroneously called Mius by Chandler; C and
D are from Priene. The extraordinary example of E with a
gutta to occupy the space, is at Halicarnassus, but the whole
order of which it forms a part is of an inferior age and character,
of Grecian art. P is from the Doric Portico of the Agora at
Athens, according to Stuart. For the example G, I am in-
debted to Mr. J. Angell, who met with it in the Acropolis of
Selinus in Sicily. Mr. J. P. Gandy has favoured me with one of
the triglyphs at Prcstum H, and with the very singular arrange-
ment of I, discovered by him among the ruins of Gnidus. I was
very anxious to ascertain this point in the Parthenon, the Pro-
pylcea, and Temple of Theseus, and had the work of Stuart with
me, but could not, after a very minute research, find any one
semiglyph sufficiently entire to prove decidedly that his arrangc-
VOL. IV.
ment was not a restoration founded upon some other authority.
It is to be observed that the Asiatic examples are not from
temples, but from agora; and other civil edifices.
a In a passage from Pausanias already quoted (p. 4. n. h) the
original describes the whole temple to be (aiOgu) of stone, and
which word is by many authors translated ' marble', as in the
edition of Paris, 1820, by Monsieur Clavier, which has the text
corrected by that eminent scholar, Dr. Coray. The fact however
is, that the capitals of the Ionic columns, the ceilings, roof, and
sculptures, are of fine white granular foliated Greek statuary
marble, resembling Pentelic: whereas all the other parts of the
temple are of a compact lime stone of a light drab (white lias)
color, which becomes white by the action of the atmosphere after
long exposure, and is penetrated by contemporaneous veins of a
harder variety of the same substance. This stone is capable of
receiving a very high polish.