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14 EXPLANATORY DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES
before, to take any more accurate dimensions of the necking, which I have given to the full size in
Fig. 2, as it appeared to me.
Fig. 3. Annulets to the full size.
Fig. 4. In this outline, are shewn the general principles which appear, on most occasions", to
have directed the Greeks in the composition of their Doric capitals. From the necking to the abacus,
the outline is that of a cyma reversa, having a projection that varied according to the a?ra, or style of
art peculiar to the country ; the existing Attic examples being but slightly projecting, while the im-
mense abacus of the orders now remaining at Corinth, Pacstum, and in Sicily, gives a bolder profile
to the capital. The entasis of the shaft continues up to half the height of the hypotrachelium, where it
begins to assume a diverging direction. It will be seen that the annulets have a concave profile, as in
Fig. 3, and that their projection from the echinus is gained by letting the outline of the echinus
above the upper fillet cut into the general outline of the cyma reversa.
Fig. 5. Capital of the pronaos and posticum.
Fig. 6. Details of the annulets and necking of the less order to the full size.
Fig. 7- Capital of the anta:> with the architrave of the order of the pronaos. The profile of
the antae-capital is a graceful departure from the usual combinations of mouldings adopted in Greece.
The dimension of one foot seven inches and two tenths proves that this is the lateral face of the capi-
tal, the anta having diminished from the base where the dimension is one foot nine inches and seven
tenths. The commencement of the triglyph above the taenia is given, as on the upper bed of the
architrave there were evident signs of the channels of the triglyphs placed thereon. At the Temple
in JEgina, Nemea, and of Concord at Agrigentum, triglyphs were placed over the columns of the
pronaos and posticum, but did not continue along the lateral walls of the cella. In this temple, the
metopes of the porticus were enriched with sculpture, some few fragments of which were discovered
during the excavations. In the Parthenon a basso-relievo occupies the frieze, encircling the walls of
the cella, though the regula with the.guttse in the architrave still retains the distinctive character of
the Doric entablature.
PLATE VII.
LONGITUDINAL SECTION THROUGH THE POSTICUM AND
OPISTHODOMUS OF THE TEMPLE.
This portion of the temple was chosen, instead of the pronaos, for the sectional line in order to
shew the arrangement of the Ionic angular capital, and to avoid a restoration of the portal, for which
the ruins offer but too little authority.
.In this, as in all the temples of the Greeks, is perceptible the ingenuity with which they over-
came the difficulties of a restricted space, in order to produce the greatest possible effect. The prox-
imity, which necessarily occurs between the columns of the porticus and pronaos at one end, and be-
tween those of the posticum and opisthodomus at the other, required that the columns of the pronaos
and opisthodomus should be of dimensions less than those of the peristylium, in order that by their
reduced height, and by the step below, an optical illusion might be produced, equivalent for the
effect that would result from distance. By a propriety of construction the first course of stone on
the inside, as well as on the outside of the wall of the cella, is of a greater height than the other courses,
which thus gives an appearance of greater firmness and solidity.
The height of the Ionic columns is presumed.
» The Capitals of the Temples at Selinus and of the Basilica at Poestum are departures from the principle here assumed.
before, to take any more accurate dimensions of the necking, which I have given to the full size in
Fig. 2, as it appeared to me.
Fig. 3. Annulets to the full size.
Fig. 4. In this outline, are shewn the general principles which appear, on most occasions", to
have directed the Greeks in the composition of their Doric capitals. From the necking to the abacus,
the outline is that of a cyma reversa, having a projection that varied according to the a?ra, or style of
art peculiar to the country ; the existing Attic examples being but slightly projecting, while the im-
mense abacus of the orders now remaining at Corinth, Pacstum, and in Sicily, gives a bolder profile
to the capital. The entasis of the shaft continues up to half the height of the hypotrachelium, where it
begins to assume a diverging direction. It will be seen that the annulets have a concave profile, as in
Fig. 3, and that their projection from the echinus is gained by letting the outline of the echinus
above the upper fillet cut into the general outline of the cyma reversa.
Fig. 5. Capital of the pronaos and posticum.
Fig. 6. Details of the annulets and necking of the less order to the full size.
Fig. 7- Capital of the anta:> with the architrave of the order of the pronaos. The profile of
the antae-capital is a graceful departure from the usual combinations of mouldings adopted in Greece.
The dimension of one foot seven inches and two tenths proves that this is the lateral face of the capi-
tal, the anta having diminished from the base where the dimension is one foot nine inches and seven
tenths. The commencement of the triglyph above the taenia is given, as on the upper bed of the
architrave there were evident signs of the channels of the triglyphs placed thereon. At the Temple
in JEgina, Nemea, and of Concord at Agrigentum, triglyphs were placed over the columns of the
pronaos and posticum, but did not continue along the lateral walls of the cella. In this temple, the
metopes of the porticus were enriched with sculpture, some few fragments of which were discovered
during the excavations. In the Parthenon a basso-relievo occupies the frieze, encircling the walls of
the cella, though the regula with the.guttse in the architrave still retains the distinctive character of
the Doric entablature.
PLATE VII.
LONGITUDINAL SECTION THROUGH THE POSTICUM AND
OPISTHODOMUS OF THE TEMPLE.
This portion of the temple was chosen, instead of the pronaos, for the sectional line in order to
shew the arrangement of the Ionic angular capital, and to avoid a restoration of the portal, for which
the ruins offer but too little authority.
.In this, as in all the temples of the Greeks, is perceptible the ingenuity with which they over-
came the difficulties of a restricted space, in order to produce the greatest possible effect. The prox-
imity, which necessarily occurs between the columns of the porticus and pronaos at one end, and be-
tween those of the posticum and opisthodomus at the other, required that the columns of the pronaos
and opisthodomus should be of dimensions less than those of the peristylium, in order that by their
reduced height, and by the step below, an optical illusion might be produced, equivalent for the
effect that would result from distance. By a propriety of construction the first course of stone on
the inside, as well as on the outside of the wall of the cella, is of a greater height than the other courses,
which thus gives an appearance of greater firmness and solidity.
The height of the Ionic columns is presumed.
» The Capitals of the Temples at Selinus and of the Basilica at Poestum are departures from the principle here assumed.