. Report on the investigations at Assos, 1882, 1883, pt. I . oth cases the scrollsseem to have been laid out by unwinding a cord, to the freeend of which was attached a chisel-point, from a cylinder fixedin the centre of the scroll as an involute, — the opJitJiahnos,perhaps for this purpose, having been cut entirely throughthe stone. Above all, the spiral lines are in both indicatedby peculiar incisions of rectangular section, varying in depthfrom a slight sinking to a cutting nearly equal to one thirdthe thickness of the stone. In short, the workmanship isthat of one and the same school of ma
. Report on the investigations at Assos, 1882, 1883, pt. I . oth cases the scrollsseem to have been laid out by unwinding a cord, to the freeend of which was attached a chisel-point, from a cylinder fixedin the centre of the scroll as an involute, — the opJitJiahnos,perhaps for this purpose, having been cut entirely throughthe stone. Above all, the spiral lines are in both indicatedby peculiar incisions of rectangular section, varying in depthfrom a slight sinking to a cutting nearly equal to one thirdthe thickness of the stone. In short, the workmanship isthat of one and the same school of masonry, and is to be re-ferred to about the same period of artistic development, —a fact which will be re-ferred to in the discussion ■^.■•i- i^^r>of the age of the temple. Of the corner acrote- ria, the single fragment brought to light was the fore paw of a sphinx or griffin, standing upon a portion of the base by which the figure was attached to the end of ^ ^ Fig. 34. Fragment OF AcROTERioN. Paw the sima, above the gar- of Sphinx or 1 Clarke (Joseph Tliacher), A Pioto-lonic Capital from the Site of , 1S86. Reprint from the American Journal of Archicology, vol. ii. p. i. 138 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. goyle (Fig. 34). The stone is now in the Museum at Boston,S. 1105. The carving of the paw displays that mastery in therendering of animal forms which is so evident in all the sculp-tures of the temple ; and it is much to be regretted that noth-ing remains of the body, which would have been especiallyinteresting as an example of the work of the sculptors ofAssos in the full round. It will be remarked, that in the choice of subjects for thecorner, as well as for the central acroteria, the temple ofAssos agrees with that of Aigina. But in Assos there wasparticular reason for the representation of the sphinx orgriffin in connection with the fane of Athena Polias, oneor the other of these animals having formed the heraldicsymbol of the city. Th
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