A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . zontal courses in position. Bronze nailsand nailholes in the wall indicate that bronzerosettes or similar ornaments were used fordecoration. On the north side of the beehivechamber a doorway opens into a smaller darkchamber 27 feet sijuare and 19 feet high, entirelycut out of the rock. Our Period II. directs the attention more toreligious architecture. The separate states andcolonies formed by earlier migiations are unifieilby the Olympic festivals and Delphic oracles, sothat we find the same type used for
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . zontal courses in position. Bronze nailsand nailholes in the wall indicate that bronzerosettes or similar ornaments were used fordecoration. On the north side of the beehivechamber a doorway opens into a smaller darkchamber 27 feet sijuare and 19 feet high, entirelycut out of the rock. Our Period II. directs the attention more toreligious architecture. The separate states andcolonies formed by earlier migiations are unifieilby the Olympic festivals and Delphic oracles, sothat we find the same type used for the old He-rreum at Olynipia, the Hecatompedon at Athens,and for the temples at C!orinth, iEgina, andDelphi. It is the ancient megaron developed,with the principal addition of an enclosing col-onnade, or peristyle, and built of finer materialand with greater artistic skill ; the statue ofthe deity, the oracular fire, or tripod, occupiesthe position of the old hearth. Forms formerlyexecuted in wood are now built of stone or mar-316 PLATE XII ^^ ? ^ Jfc ? -H^^^^^^^^l rj^^^l m^ ?. The ancient Cathedral or Metvi)p<ilitaii churchof Athens; a curious jiicce of niediaval Hyzanliuework ilatinu, as is generally thouglit, fmni the timeof the Latin conquest and the fnuudatinn of theFrench dukedom of Athens early in the thirteenth GREECE, AliCHITECTURE OF century. The building is in great part composedof ancient scul|itiuvd fragmeins. It is very small,nicasiiring only 28 x 40 feet outside, and its cruci-fiinii clearsliiry is carried on six piers so that thereis hardly room for a congregation. GREECE GREECE ble. Architectural terra cotta (moulilings, rooftiles, aiitefixie, etc.) are toiind at various sites,Imt of similar patterns, as tliougli having ema-nated from one central inanufactury. At Olym-]jia, the treasury of Gela had a stone corniteencased with terra cotta. The institution ofreligious festivals and games concentrated awealth of architecture in certain favoured city
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