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 . No. log.—Capital, 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 o
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 . No. log.—Capital, 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 tog
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