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Title: The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896 Wood, J. E Davies, Benjamin Rees
Subjects: Classical antiquities Archaeology
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sestum, the temple at Segesta, and one at Selinus, have the samedifference, while that at Syracuse is only -009 less; two at Agrigentum differ only•001; the Erechtheum and Temple of Victory Apteros, but -002; and those of^gina, Thoricus, Eleusis, and Sunium, approach eacli other tolerably near.Mr. Cockerell has made a similar observation on the proportionate heights of columns.(Temple of Jup. Olymp. Agrigentum, p. 6.)t So called by Wilkins. MAUSOLEUM AT HALICARNASSUS. 171 Ionic. Athens: Temple on the Ilissus 2*120 „ Erechtheum, west front 2-162 „ „ east portico 1994 „ Temple of Victory Apteros . , . . 1992 Priene:* Temple of Minerva Polias , . . . 1739 Teos: Temple of Bacchus (as describedbyVitruvius) 225 Ephesus : Temple of Diana (by calculation) . . 225 Branchidse: Temple of Apollo 1-360 Samos : Temple of Juno 1-623 Mean 1-943 The length of the mausoleum being 63 feet, and deducting1 9195 for the projection of the base and cornice, and allowingseven columns at the sides—
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* The Propylaea at Priene has an intercolumniation of 2-554; but these sacred 172 MAUSOLEUM AT ITALICAENASSUS. we have an intercolumniation of 6 IOll, or 1*722 diameter,whicli is nearly the same as that of Priene. If we suppose one column less at the sides instead of seven,we shall not be able to get in the total number of thirty-sixcolumns; and if we propose one column more, we shallfind that the intercolumniations will become reduced to4 8*525, or 1*333 diameter, which is less than that ofmany Doric temples: we are therefore compelled to adopt sevencolumns at the sides of the building. It wiU be objected thatan odd number of columns would be productive of an unsightlyeiFect; but though it is opposed to the mechanical proportionswith which we are too often in the habit of shackling architec-ture, I think it may be proved that the Greeks, so far fromconsidering it as a defect, often esteemed it as a beauty—so far from avoiding an odd number of columns, frequentlyselected it. The maj

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