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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
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ptedby the builders. It has been seen, from marks upon the sty-lobate, that the laying of the stones which form the stepswas commenced near the northwestern corner of the edifice,and was continued in both directions until they met upon thesouthern side.^ The same sequence appears to have been fol-lowed in the construction of the entablature. Thus, the lin-tels and frieze members of the eastern front were laid in thedirection from north to south. The work having evidentlybeen carried on in the most primitive and irregular manner,without the aid of scaled working drawings, or accurately de-termined tables of dimensions, everything had to be done by ^ Page 64 of the present volume. The considerations wliich determined thiscourse of construction were undoubtedly connected with the facts that the stonewas brought to the site of the temple from the northwest, there being no ap-proach to the Acropolis from the south, and that the native rock reached thehighest level at this part of the plan.
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INVESTIGATIONS AT ASSOS, 1SS3. 257 testing and fitting. The temple was built in the same way aswere the polygonal city walls of that epoch, with their irregu-lar angles and unequal lengths of the separate stones. Forthe width of every second metope, at least, independentmeasurements had to be taken from the edifice in the courseof construction. The want of agreement between the jointsurfaces of the lintels and the axes of the columns was oneresult of this system, and we have been forced to concludethat the exact lengths of the regulas were cut upon the faceof the reliefs after the members of the frieze had been placedin position above them. The only fixed principle in the ar-rangement of the frieze was that every alternate triglyphshould be placed as nearly as possible in the line of the col-umn beneath it. Thus it was brought about that the entirecorrection rendered necessary by the elongation of the mem-bers of the frieze to correspond with the longer beams of thefronts, and especia

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