Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . till in position. CD is apoor wall of unfinished slab-likestones, 17 m. long. In about themiddle there is an opening, perhaps the entrance to the enclosure. Eis a base of mica-schist blocks upon which stood the column that nowlies stretched out on the ground over a space of ten meters.* Thiscolumn consisted of seven unflutcd drums secured together by ironbolts. The holes for these bolts are of peculiar and ingenious shape forsecuring firmly the lead by which they were fastened, when once run inand set. In the top of each lower drum
Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens . till in position. CD is apoor wall of unfinished slab-likestones, 17 m. long. In about themiddle there is an opening, perhaps the entrance to the enclosure. Eis a base of mica-schist blocks upon which stood the column that nowlies stretched out on the ground over a space of ten meters.* Thiscolumn consisted of seven unflutcd drums secured together by ironbolts. The holes for these bolts are of peculiar and ingenious shape forsecuring firmly the lead by which they were fastened, when once run inand set. In the top of each lower drum there is a socket about , m. broad, and about m. long at the top but narrowingdown at one end for about half the depth and then widening again. Asmall channel for running in the lead communicated with the socket *^Sonie of the walls mentioned may have been terrace walls. ^*[_Cf. PliT., Vit. Isocr.: avrcL S^laoKpani inl rov ixvrtfxaTos ewriu kiwv rpiaKOvraTTTjxi*, f o£ ^v iTTjxii sTTa. Tlus was near Kynosarges.—A. C. M.]. Fig. 10. 68 ARCHITECTURAL REMAINS IN IK ARIA. from the outer edge of the drum. The corresponding socket in thebottom of the upper drum is not so long, and is a plain cutting of thesame section throughout. The uppermost drum is ornamented with anarrow moulding {Fig. 9) and has on the top a circular socket diameter and deep. Lying exactly at the head of the column, asit lay on the ground, were found fragments of marble which make up alarge vase-shaped oliject with a beautiful guilloche and fluted ornament
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