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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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1.193 m. in length and inbreadth. These latter dimensions, however, like those of allthe details of the temple, which may be supposed to havebeen tooled by masons in the quarry, varied considerably indifferent cases; the minimum observed being 1.18 m., themaximum 1.238 m. Thus the templet, when applied to thestone, had to be inclined from the axis, not only so as toadapt itself to the given width of the abacus, but so as tomake the base of the necking, bevelled for the incision, ofexactly the same diameter as that of the uppermost dfumof the shaft for which the capital was intended. Thesedrums, as has been stated, were themselves subject to avariation amounting to not less than 38 mm. The anglewhich the spring of the echinos formed with the horizontalplane was hence in the first capital shown in Fig. 10 as largeas 22°, in the second as small as 15°. Beyond twenty-fivedegrees the mason did not venture to go, and when the middleof the abacus projected more than 28 cm. beyond the upper
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Fig. io. Outlines of Echinos Curves, Anta Capital, and Hawks-billMoulding of Corona. S2 ARCH^OLOGICAL INSTITUTE. diameter of the shaft, as in the case of the third capital (Fig.lo), he was obHged to cut an echinos with an outline con-siderably longer than that indicated by the templet with whichhe was provided. A share of this equalization was borne alsoby the projection of the necking curve, and by the width ofthe annulets; the former varying from lo to 25 mm., thelatter from 50 to 55 mm. In the case of the exceptional capi-tal (shown as the fourth in Fig. 10), it is evident that thestone-cutter was without such a templet as that according towhich every other echinos throughout the building was shaped.The curve wa§ here determined only by the workmans eye.That this was not particularly accurate can be seen from acomparison between the actual form, shown by the continuousline, and the normal curve, indicated by dots. The annulets,too, are of a different design; and it is to be remark

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