File:Report on the investigations at Assos, 1882, 1883, pt. I (1898) (14577334459).jpg

Identifier: reportoninvestig00clar (find matches)
Title: Report on the investigations at Assos, 1882, 1883, pt. I
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Clarke, Joseph Thacher
Subjects: Assos (Extinct city)
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
e was providedby four courses of squared stones, measioring respectively35, 30, 25, and 25 cm. ia_thkkne§s^each-of. vyhjch projectedabout 3 cm. beyond that resting upon it. Elsewhere thelong blocks forming the first step were placed directly onthe rock, a level bed being cut to receive them. This wasthe case along the greater extent of the northern and west-ern sides ; indeed, throughout exactly one half of its length,tl;e juncture^etvveen the pavement of the temenos and thestepsof U)iejte_mple was_a_juncture between the tooled surfaceof the native rock and accurately squared blocks quarriedfroiji--k: ~ The plan of the building, in its present condition (Fig. 4),exhibits some points which were omitted from the drawing ofthe floor published as Plate 7 in the First Report; — notablythe important pry and dog holes, the_re.mains oLthe-^on-crete foundation of the mosaic exteriding beyond the cubesof colored stone, the weathered standpoints of various bases, ■ TW»rk I Ft I i:^y(_V^I J
Text Appearing After Image:
..:.Li;:^..:k^.:4-.4:..4;-,sp. L Fig. 4. Plan ok the Temple of Assos. — Present Condition. Y 58 ARCHJEOLOG/CAL INSTITUTE. whj_ch_4irobaJ-jljL^supported votive statues or inscriptions, thebed_lines_oLlh£Liiin£r course of the cella wall, and, finally,the fractures of the paving slabs. The stones of the steps vary in length from one to some-what over three meters. In width the dimensions are moreregular, seldom being less than 0.9 or more than i.i m. Inthe case of the stjlobate blocks, the, ppi^rjiiirfarp formkigpart of the pteroma floor, was planned to have a regularwidth of I.I m., and upon the northern side, which was evi-

Note About Images