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Fig. 9- Detail of the apothesis, fillet, and astragal; the flutings at the top of the columns
terminate under the soffit of the apothesis, shewing no head or continuation to the arrises or sharp
angles of the flutings.

Fig. 10. Perpendicular section through the eye of the volutes. It is to be remarked that the
eye of the volute is a distinct piece of marble fixed into a groove.

Fig. 11. Horizontal section through the eyes of the volutes.

The dimensions of these two last figures were ascertained from the fragments now in the British
Museum.

PLATE IX.

CORINTHIAN ORDER AND OTHER DETAILS.

This plate consists chiefly of the beams and cornices, which formed the decoration of the in-
terior, and some of which are adapted in the section to those parts which the authority of the Par-
thenon seemed to suggest as their appropriate destination.

Fig. 1. Base of the Corinthian order.

Fig. 2. Profile of the torus traced from the original.

Fig. 3. It is to be regretted that the wanton violence of the natives should have destroyed
an example so interesting as that of the Corinthian capital, a sketch of which, as taken by Mr.
Allason, occupies the centre of the plate. It was intended to give a restoration of this capital, but
the dimensions on it are so few, and the whole is in so shattered a state, as to preclude the possibility
of restoring it in a satisfactory manner. From the concave face of the abacus and the indications of
the springing of the caulicoli, this specimen seems much removed from what we may suppose to be
the primitive form of the Corinthian capital, found by Stuart at the portico of the Temple of the
Winds, and of which numerous examples and varieties are found in Athens and throughout Asia
Minor.

Fig. 4. The dimension across the soffite of this beam, and the smooth appearance of the
under face seem to indicate it as the architrave of the Corinthian column, whose diameter is but one inch
less. A reference to the section will shew how the blocks of the frieze were fitted in the receding part.

Jig. 5, 6, 7- Are very difficult of application. The returned cima reversa of the soffite of
Fig. 6, makes it probable that this block formed the supercilium to one of the doors.

Fig. 8. Appeared to be appropriate as the beam immediately under the lacunaria, the square
recess being filled up by Fig. 12.

Fig. 9- Seems adapted for the cornice over the sculptured frieze of the cella.

Fig. 10. The very peculiar profile of this block and the absence of any authority of a similar
moulding, render it more appropriate for a seat than a cornice.

Fig. 11. Occupies in the section the intermediate space between the frieze of the posticum
and the beam under the lacunaria.

Fig. 12. Is a tracing from the original, which it appears probable formed the moulding for
the square recess in Fig. 8.

The long exposure of the various blocks to the weather, has obliterated every trace of the paint-
ing which may formerly have enriched the mouldings. But it may be remarked, as a general rule,
that the Greeks admitted very little sculptured ornament on the mouldings of the soffites and interior;
justly considering, that the effect gained by decided colour, when the part from position was in shadow,
was much more effective than any variety resulting from ornament in real relief. The eggs and darts

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