. Report on the investigations at Assos, 1882, 1883, pt. I . cations which once occupied the sum-mit of the Acropolis ; it still stands upright. That so fewfragments should remain of the thirty-four inner epistylebeams — which formed a total length of eighty-four meters(or eighty-eight meters, if the inner epistyle was cut to amitre at the corners, as in the temples of Aigina and Olym-pia) — is readily explicable by the consideration that thesestones, having been without projecting members, and accu- 92 ARCH^OLOGICAT. INSTITUTE. rately squared upon all sides, were eminently suited to thepurpos
. Report on the investigations at Assos, 1882, 1883, pt. I . cations which once occupied the sum-mit of the Acropolis ; it still stands upright. That so fewfragments should remain of the thirty-four inner epistylebeams — which formed a total length of eighty-four meters(or eighty-eight meters, if the inner epistyle was cut to amitre at the corners, as in the temples of Aigina and Olym-pia) — is readily explicable by the consideration that thesestones, having been without projecting members, and accu- 92 ARCH^OLOGICAT. INSTITUTE. rately squared upon all sides, were eminently suited to thepurposes of later builders, Christian and Mohammedan, wholooked upon the ancient monuments as a convenient quarry. The blocks of the inner epistyle, like those of the outer,were somewhat less finely tooled upon their bed surfacesthan upon their exposed soffits, and were likewise providedwith shallow rectangular notches, destined to receive the point ^yt ■■^. ^r • ^ \ ■ •.. £ n- -■j _^_^ €■■ I:, ,,-^ V> •■■■ E- x. Fig. 13. Fragments of inner Epistyle Beams, showing Shift-holesAND Masons Marks. of the crowbar by which they were raised while being shiftedinto position. As it was necessary that the widths of theouter and inner lintels should together make up the totalthickness of the epistyle, namely, 82 cm., they must havebeen fitted together upon the ground. Those which hadbeen matched were occasionally designated by masons of these signs, the only ones found, are shown inFigure 13. They will be referred to in the discussion ofthe age of the building. INVESTIGATIONS AT ASSOS, 1883. 93 The members of the frieze show irregularities in point ofsize, which far exceed those observed in other parts of thestructure. The triglyphs and metopes found during thecourse of the investigations, as well as the spacing of the reo-u-las upon the blocks of the epistyle, prove the dimensions —even of those details which were in immediate pro
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