Capital of Ionic column discovered by Inwood built into the wall of a
small Greek chapel called Agia Marina on the left bank of the Ilissos
at Athens. This is probably the site of the temple of Artemis Eucleia
mentioned by Pausanias (i., 14, 5, and compare ix., 17, 1). Roses are
sculptured in the eyes of the volutes. Inwood remarks (p. 136) that
the central enrichment over the cymatium between the volutes is
unusual. From the absence of mortices by which the capital could be
secured to the architrave or to the shaft, he infers (p. 133) that
this capital may have belonged to some sepulchral stelè or other work,
where great strength of construction was not required. Bötticher,
who engraves this or a similar capital, is of the same opinion. The
opposite face of the capital is nearly all broken away.--_Inwood
Coll._
Pentelic marble; width from centre of volute to centre of volute,
12-3/4 inches. _Synopsis_, No. 398. Inwood, _Erechtheion_, p. 132,
pls. 24-25. Bötticher, _Tektonik_, pl. 30, fig. 7, text, p. 299.
[Sidenote: =444.=]
Volute of Ionic capital. Inwood (p. 128) states that it was found near
the site of the temple of Nikè Apteros, and that from its scale it
probably belongs to that temple. This, however, is not the case, as
may be seen by comparing this fragment with the capital of the temple
of Nikè Apteros in Ross, _Akropolis von Athen_, pls. vii., viii. The
pulvinus of this capital is ornamented with leaves, as in the example
from Athens in Bötticher's _Tektonik_, pl. 31, fig. 5, text, p.
299.--_Inwood Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 1 foot; breadth, 9-1/2 inches.
_Synopsis_, No. 404, where it is incorrectly described as a
capital from the temple of Nikè Apteros. Inwood, _Erechtheion_,
pl. 21.
[Sidenote: =445.=]
Volute of Ionic capital, which, according to Inwood (p. 127) was found
in a wall below the north side of the Acropolis at Athens. In the eye
of this volute a rose is sculptured in relief. In the capitals of
the Erechtheion there was a similar rose of bronze gilt, for which a
recess is carved in the marble.--_Inwood Coll._
Pentelic marble; height, 7-3/4 inches; breadth, 9 inches.
_Synopsis_, No. 410. Inwood, _Erechtheion_, pl. 20; Bötticher,
_Tektonik_, text, p. 299.
[Sidenote: =446.=]
Fragment of the shaft of a column which was fluted with twenty-four
flutes, the diameter being about two feet two inches. The dimensions
differ from those of the columns of the Erechtheion.--_Greece._
_Presented by W. R. Hamilton, Esq._
Marble; height, 1 foot 7 inches; width, 1 foot 6 inches.
[Sidenote: =447.=]
Capital of Corinthian column, from one of the porches of the building
at Athens, commonly known as the Tower of the Winds, or more correctly
as the Horologium of Andronicus Cyrrhestes (built probably in the 2nd
century B.C.).--_Formerly in the Elgin Collection._
Marble; height, 1 foot 4-1/2 inches. Stuart, I., chap. III., pl.
7.
[Sidenote: =448.=]
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