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ARCHITECTURE OF THE ARCilVE HEBAETTM
in other examples which are left to us it is
only painted; this carved cyma is therefore
quite unique. I found a great many frag-
ments of the cyma, some well preserved and
others much weathered, probably due to their
relative exposures on the north and south sides
of the temple. A difference in execution was
also discernible, showing that different carvers
had been employed. The profile of the mould-
ing is shown in Fig. G2; its height over all is
approximately 0.27 m. or \!l of a unit, or about
equal to the combined heights of the cornice
fascia and beak-moulding. The broad fillet of
the cyma is 0.07H m. high, the small moulding
at top 0.028 in. and the overhang is 0.03 m.
beyond the line of its fillet.
Many fragments of lion's head water-spouts
were found attached to portions of the cyma
and well carved from the same white marble.
They are superior in design and execution to
most of such gargoyles as are left to us from
the temples of the period. Several of these
heads, which were almost perfect, were of two
sizes. In my restoration I have placed the
larger head over each column and two smaller
ones between, as this arrangement seemed to
space properly when laid out full size with the
anthemion.
The roof of the temple was covered with
white marble tiles, which, Ave are told by
Pausanias, had been used at Olympia about
forty years earlier.1 Plate I. (Frontispiece
of this chapter) shows the details. The width
of the flat tiles was about 0.54 m. or {| units.
The ridge-tiles covering the joints were
0.19 m. or ^ units wide. Every alternate
ridge-tile was carried down and attached to
the back of the cyma, while those in a line
with the lions' heads were closed at the ends
and stopped about a half length back of the
cyma to allow the water to run out of the
lions' spouts.
1 In describing the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, Pau-
sanias writes (V. 10): "The architect was Libon, a
native. The tiles are not of baked earth, but of Pentelic
marble, which is wrought into the shape of tiles. They
say that this was a contrivance of Byzes, a Naxian, who
is said to have made the images in Naxos which bear the
following inscription : —
" ' Euergus, a Naxian, dedicated me to the offspring of Latona,
Euergus, son of Byzes, who first made tiles of stone.1
"This Byzes lived in the time of Alyattes, the Lydian,
and of Astyages, the son of Cyaxares, king of the
Medes."
ARCHITECTURE OF THE ARCilVE HEBAETTM
in other examples which are left to us it is
only painted; this carved cyma is therefore
quite unique. I found a great many frag-
ments of the cyma, some well preserved and
others much weathered, probably due to their
relative exposures on the north and south sides
of the temple. A difference in execution was
also discernible, showing that different carvers
had been employed. The profile of the mould-
ing is shown in Fig. G2; its height over all is
approximately 0.27 m. or \!l of a unit, or about
equal to the combined heights of the cornice
fascia and beak-moulding. The broad fillet of
the cyma is 0.07H m. high, the small moulding
at top 0.028 in. and the overhang is 0.03 m.
beyond the line of its fillet.
Many fragments of lion's head water-spouts
were found attached to portions of the cyma
and well carved from the same white marble.
They are superior in design and execution to
most of such gargoyles as are left to us from
the temples of the period. Several of these
heads, which were almost perfect, were of two
sizes. In my restoration I have placed the
larger head over each column and two smaller
ones between, as this arrangement seemed to
space properly when laid out full size with the
anthemion.
The roof of the temple was covered with
white marble tiles, which, Ave are told by
Pausanias, had been used at Olympia about
forty years earlier.1 Plate I. (Frontispiece
of this chapter) shows the details. The width
of the flat tiles was about 0.54 m. or {| units.
The ridge-tiles covering the joints were
0.19 m. or ^ units wide. Every alternate
ridge-tile was carried down and attached to
the back of the cyma, while those in a line
with the lions' heads were closed at the ends
and stopped about a half length back of the
cyma to allow the water to run out of the
lions' spouts.
1 In describing the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, Pau-
sanias writes (V. 10): "The architect was Libon, a
native. The tiles are not of baked earth, but of Pentelic
marble, which is wrought into the shape of tiles. They
say that this was a contrivance of Byzes, a Naxian, who
is said to have made the images in Naxos which bear the
following inscription : —
" ' Euergus, a Naxian, dedicated me to the offspring of Latona,
Euergus, son of Byzes, who first made tiles of stone.1
"This Byzes lived in the time of Alyattes, the Lydian,
and of Astyages, the son of Cyaxares, king of the
Medes."