. Report on the investigations at Assos, 1882, 1883, pt. I . articularly good effect, inasmuch as thesenarrow rims could easily be filed to an exactplane. Each of the antefixes was attachedto the cornice by two circular dowelsof iron, about i cm, in diameter, theseevidently having been carried throughthe intervening plates of terra-cotta. The holes in which thesepins were inserted wereneatly bored to a depth ofnot less than 7 cm. Theirpositions upon the uppersurfaces of the corniceblocks show the antefixesto have been spaced at adistance averaging be-tween 63 and 64 cm. fromcentre to centre, a
. Report on the investigations at Assos, 1882, 1883, pt. I . articularly good effect, inasmuch as thesenarrow rims could easily be filed to an exactplane. Each of the antefixes was attachedto the cornice by two circular dowelsof iron, about i cm, in diameter, theseevidently having been carried throughthe intervening plates of terra-cotta. The holes in which thesepins were inserted wereneatly bored to a depth ofnot less than 7 cm. Theirpositions upon the uppersurfaces of the corniceblocks show the antefixesto have been spaced at adistance averaging be-tween 63 and 64 cm. fromcentre to centre, and thusconsequently to have beenarranged without theslightest reference to the mutules beneath them. The roofing of Doric temples seems always to have beenconstructed without purlins or cross slats, — the tiles lyingdirectly upon the inclined timbers. The spacing of the ante-fixes consequently determines also the distance of the raftersfrom centre to centre, and the total width of the can be but little doubt that these latter were intended. Fig 28. Antefix Section. 132 ARCH^OLOGICAL INSTITUTE. to be exactly two Greek feet in width, — that is to say, of adimension commonly employed in all parts of the ancientworld.^ The flat tile shown upon the sculptured slab whichwas set up in the market-place of Assos as the official standard,has precisely this width of 63^ cm. with a length of 711 is not possible to ascertain the exact age of this interestinggauge, which will be described in detail hereafter, but it isevident that either the slab is as old as the building of thetemple itself, or that the size of roofing tiles common at thebeginning of the fifth century before Christ was retained untilthe period when this official standard was sculptured. No remains of tegute belonging to the temple were foundin a state of preservation sufficient to show their dimensions,or their exact shape. It is only certain that they were ofangular section, like that sculptured up
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