Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . pital, triglyphon, and corona uf the great Doric Temple. Acropolis, we have found m several ancient Turkish ceme-teries in the neighbourhood so many fragments of columnsand entablatures, that my architects have been enabled tomake the accompanying restoration of the upper part ofthe temple (see the engraving. No. 109). § ARCHITECTURE OF THE GREAT DORIC TEMPLE. 203 The temple was of the Doric
Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . pital, triglyphon, and corona uf the great Doric Temple. Acropolis, we have found m several ancient Turkish ceme-teries in the neighbourhood so many fragments of columnsand entablatures, that my architects have been enabled tomake the accompanying restoration of the upper part ofthe temple (see the engraving. No. 109). § ARCHITECTURE OF THE GREAT DORIC TEMPLE. 203 The temple was of the Doric order, and all its visibleparts were of white marble. The columns have twentyiiutings; their upper diameter is Ioi m. ; their lowerdiameter, as wtU as their height, are both unknown. Theprofile of the iY7//;/;/.s approaches a straight line; tho. echiiiit-shas three rines. Of the architrave no frag-ment has beenfound, because it furnished the destroyers with the very bestbuilding blocks. The frieze {friglypJion) had been arrangedin such a way that two triglyphs always came on an axis-distance of about 2*90 m. Each triglyph is 0*58 m. broadand 0*84 m. high, and has been wrought together with an. No. no.—Cymatium of the Temple of Athene, of the Macedonian time. Size about i: 12. adjoining metope, from one block. To one of these slabsa second triglyph is joined. All the metopes had beendecorated with reliefs, and thus they formed the peculiarornamentation of the temple. The corona of this templepresents the common Doric forms : it supported a cymatiiiiuof marble, which was ornamented with leaves in relief, andwith lions heads for water-spouts. The roofs, as well as thepanelled ceiling of the interior, w^ere of marble. Thedestruction of this temple by Fimbria, and its restorationby Sulla,* may be easily recognized from several sculpturedblocks. This is particularly manifest from the cymatium^ ofwhich most of the fragments found have been made in theRoman time, as is evident from
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