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32 EXPLANATORY DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES.
PLATE IV.
DETAILS.
The fragments of this plate are chiefly taken from the Elgin drawings in the British Museum,
but for greater perspicuity are more methodically arranged.
Fig. 1. is of green marble, and still remains on the spot, immediately outside the avenue lead-
ing to the door. It represents the plan of the base.
Fig. 2. Elevation of ditto, with part of the shaft of the column. The whole of the sculpture
is in very low relief, and executed with very little spirit.
Fig. 3. Detail of part of the ornament of the base developed at large.
Fig. 4. Small fragment supposed to belong to the capital.
Fig. 5. Part of the ornament of the shaft of column developed at large.
Fig. fi. Plan of the upper part of the shaft.
Fig. 7> Small fragment of white marble.
Fig. 8. Small fragment of white marble, in the restoration applied as the parapet of the wall.
Fig. 9- Fragment of green marble.
Fig. 10. Fragment of red marble : the angle produced by two of the sides, corresponds pre-
cisely with the angles formed by the lines of the opening above the entrance, and which coincidence
has therefore afforded authority for the introduction in the restored elevation of a basso-relievo, similar
to that over the gate of the Lions.
These two last fragments are in the British Museum, and form a part of the Elgin collection
of marbles.
PLATE V.
RESTORED EI/EVATION.
In the enumeration* of the drawings in the Elgin collection, the reader will perceive that a
restored elevation is mentioned among those of Mycena?. Proceeding upon the general features of
that design, this elevation has been restored, but somewhat varied, in order to include the fragments
omitted, complete the parts in that left imperfect, and adapt the details actually restored more in the
character and spirit of the original fragments. The Egyptian form has been adopted in the capital,
with a repetition of part of the ornaments of the base ; the lion's heads over the door have been drawn
in the style of a more remote period than in the Elgin drawing. As it is not probable that such an
edifice should have been without some species of door or gate at the entrance, an open iron gate oc-
cupies the opening, ornamented in the same manner as the other parts, and similar to the iron grating
that appears to have parted off the pronaos and posticum from the peristyle in the antique temples.
The form of the aperture over the door suggested the introduction of the ' Leonine' groupe, a copy
of the one over the Gate of the Acropolis ; and on the supposition that this monument may have been
the Tomb of Agamemnon, as suggested by some travellers, the shield, sword and javelins of that
chief are suspended in the vacant space, agreeably to the ancient costume of the Greeks : for although
the style of the architecture may have been adopted from a foreign country, perhaps Phrygia, as the
scene of his glory, yet it is not probable that any other than the identical arms of Agamemnon would
have been attached to his tomb.
T. L. D.
a Note *, p. 28.
PLATE IV.
DETAILS.
The fragments of this plate are chiefly taken from the Elgin drawings in the British Museum,
but for greater perspicuity are more methodically arranged.
Fig. 1. is of green marble, and still remains on the spot, immediately outside the avenue lead-
ing to the door. It represents the plan of the base.
Fig. 2. Elevation of ditto, with part of the shaft of the column. The whole of the sculpture
is in very low relief, and executed with very little spirit.
Fig. 3. Detail of part of the ornament of the base developed at large.
Fig. 4. Small fragment supposed to belong to the capital.
Fig. 5. Part of the ornament of the shaft of column developed at large.
Fig. fi. Plan of the upper part of the shaft.
Fig. 7> Small fragment of white marble.
Fig. 8. Small fragment of white marble, in the restoration applied as the parapet of the wall.
Fig. 9- Fragment of green marble.
Fig. 10. Fragment of red marble : the angle produced by two of the sides, corresponds pre-
cisely with the angles formed by the lines of the opening above the entrance, and which coincidence
has therefore afforded authority for the introduction in the restored elevation of a basso-relievo, similar
to that over the gate of the Lions.
These two last fragments are in the British Museum, and form a part of the Elgin collection
of marbles.
PLATE V.
RESTORED EI/EVATION.
In the enumeration* of the drawings in the Elgin collection, the reader will perceive that a
restored elevation is mentioned among those of Mycena?. Proceeding upon the general features of
that design, this elevation has been restored, but somewhat varied, in order to include the fragments
omitted, complete the parts in that left imperfect, and adapt the details actually restored more in the
character and spirit of the original fragments. The Egyptian form has been adopted in the capital,
with a repetition of part of the ornaments of the base ; the lion's heads over the door have been drawn
in the style of a more remote period than in the Elgin drawing. As it is not probable that such an
edifice should have been without some species of door or gate at the entrance, an open iron gate oc-
cupies the opening, ornamented in the same manner as the other parts, and similar to the iron grating
that appears to have parted off the pronaos and posticum from the peristyle in the antique temples.
The form of the aperture over the door suggested the introduction of the ' Leonine' groupe, a copy
of the one over the Gate of the Acropolis ; and on the supposition that this monument may have been
the Tomb of Agamemnon, as suggested by some travellers, the shield, sword and javelins of that
chief are suspended in the vacant space, agreeably to the ancient costume of the Greeks : for although
the style of the architecture may have been adopted from a foreign country, perhaps Phrygia, as the
scene of his glory, yet it is not probable that any other than the identical arms of Agamemnon would
have been attached to his tomb.
T. L. D.
a Note *, p. 28.