A dictionary of Greek and Roman . thetriglyphs were ornamented with sculptures in highrelief. The cornice is flat, and projects far, and onits under side are cut several sets of drops, calledmutules (mutuli), one over each triglyph and eachmetope, the surfaces of which follow the slope ofthe roof, and which are said by Vitruvius to repre-sent the ends of the rafters of the roof. In the COLUMNA. 325 most ancient examples of the order the columns arevery short in proportion to their greatest the temple at Corinth, which is supposed to bethe oldest of all, the height of
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . thetriglyphs were ornamented with sculptures in highrelief. The cornice is flat, and projects far, and onits under side are cut several sets of drops, calledmutules (mutuli), one over each triglyph and eachmetope, the surfaces of which follow the slope ofthe roof, and which are said by Vitruvius to repre-sent the ends of the rafters of the roof. In the COLUMNA. 325 most ancient examples of the order the columns arevery short in proportion to their greatest the temple at Corinth, which is supposed to bethe oldest of all, the height of the columns is only7-J modules (i. e. semi-diameters), and in the greattemple at Paestum only 8 modules ; but greaterlightness was afterwards given to the order, sothat, in the Parthenon, which is the best example,the height of the columns is 12 modules. The fol-lowing profile is from the temple of Apollo Epi-curius at Phigaleia, built by the same architect asthe Parthenon. For a comparison -of the otherchief examples, see the work of \ m Ill II The Roman architects made considerable vari-ations in the order, the details of which are shownin the engraving on the following page, from an ex-ample at Albano near Rome. In the later examplesof the Roman Doric, a base is given to the column. II. The Ionic Order is as much distinguishedby simple gracefulness as the Doric by majesticstrength. The column is much more slenderthan the Doric, having, in the earliest known ex-ample, namely, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus,a height of 16 modules, which was afterwards in-creased to 18. The shaft rests upon a base, whichwas either the elaborate Ionic or the Attic [Spira;Atticurges]. The capital either springs di-rectly from the shaft, or there is a hypotrachelium,separated from the shaft by an astragal moulding,y 3 326 COLUMNA.
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