DOR
294
DOR
13
When used, the epitithedas was continued a little way at theangles, and terminated against a carved block. The pedi-ment in this order is of a low pitch, and always about thesame height, whatever the span may be ; upon an average theheight equals that of the entablature, more or less, but isscarcely ever so great as to make the tympanum higher thanthe entablature.
Having completed this general description of the order, itmay be as well to say a few words about the proportionsobserved in the different parts.
The height of the column varies from four times the lowerdiameter, as in the earliest existing example at Corinth,to 6^ times, as at the portico of Philip , but in the purestexamples the height is about 5-^ times the lower diameter,the upper diameter being ) less than the lower. The entab-lature varies from If to 2 diameters in height, of which -Jgo to the epistylium, f to the frieze, and the remainder to thecornice.
To afford more detailed information, we give the followingproportions from the temple at Sunium, and the accompany-ing table, as prepared by Mr. Brown.
“ The proportions of the temple at Sunium are thusordered: make the column 6 diameters high, and the entab-
, 1 f
ture of the column, or divide the whole heig 1 eI) tabl |1 'parts, of which give 10 to the column, and 3 to tn] 0 iV er 'ture. The upper diameter of the column is f 3 par 19 'The canital i a diameter, which, being divided nndano" 16 ' 9 ’
n tn tho ciVtnnna O tn tlid flVOlO .w f
. dia<
3 to
The capital f a
2 are to be given to the abacus, 2 to the ovolo ^and 1 to the necking. The length of the abacus ^.^gThe entablature is to be divided into 8 parts, S 1 . g , I athe architrave, 3 to the frieze, and 2 to the cor p J j] e t, 8fl ,dividing the cornice, take -if for the cymatium, parmoulding, -f for the corona alone, and leave dr» lVl J
of the facia which appears below a horizontal pr°j e °.
from the lower front edge of the corona. The w ce iitr
tion of the cornice is 1 diameter, reckoning (rota 0 f tb
of the column. The capital of the triglyp' 1 ,!° 0 f th e *16whole height of the frieze. The capital or fill®* 0 rC bit rft »trave to be t? of the height of the architrave. The jjffei'® 11 ,^to overhang the upper part of the shaft by f * ;p u tia£between that and the lower diameter. In ^ 1S w -idtbtriglyphs, take 1) diameter, or 75 minutes for 1 {o*® e g
the triglyph and metope, and of this give f *® 'fb u3 „gand to the latter, or nearly 28 and 47 gO ^ ^
monotriglyph intercolumniation will be 75 + 7minutes, or 11 diameter.”
A Table of the Proportions of some of the Grecian Doric Orders , according to the Module of Sixty P ar S ’formed at the bottom of the Shaft of the Column.
1 1
Propylsea, or Entrance into the Citadel of Athens
Portico of the Agora, at Athens .
Temple of Minerva, or Parthenon, at Athens .
Temple at Corinth .
Temple of Minerva at Sunium .
Temple of Jupiter Nemeus, near Argos.
Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius at Argive.
Portico of Philip , King of Macedon, at Delos.
Temple of Apollo at Delos (plain shaft) .
Temple of Minerva at Syracuse .
Temple of Juno Lucina at Agrigentum .
Temple of Concord at Agrigentum .
Temple of Selinus .
Temple of Jupiter Selinus .
Pseudo-dipteral Temple at Psestum .
Hexastyle Temple at Psestum .
Hypaethral Temple of Neptune at Peestum .
Inner Peristyle of Temple of Neptune .
Upper Columns to ditto.
Temple of Egesta (plain shaft) .
Lower
Diameter.
Upper
Diameter.
Height ofColumn.
Archi-
trave.
V
Cornice.
Minutes.
Minutes.
Diam.
Min.
Min.
Min.
Min
60
47
6
2)
40
42
21
60
47
5
33)
43
43
32
60
44f
4
4
48f
—
—
60
46f
5
42)
50
49)
—
60
4of
5
54
48)
48)
—
60
49
6
31
38|
43)
—
60
44|
5
24
51)
51)
—
60
49 £
6
32)
38)
43|
25)
60
42)
6
4
49f
42)
—
60
46
4
24)
44)
40
—
60
45£
4
42
55
45
—
60
46
4
48)
46f
46)
25
60
46
4
2ii
46)
44)
—
60
35)
4
34)
52
44|
26
60
404
4
27
50
—
60
43
4
47|
45J
443
243
60
4
8
42)
40)
21)
60
43
1
13)
39
_
—
60
444
3
50
68
—
■ -
60
44|
493
52)
401
Intercom®'
niation
JVlin
Diam.
15
50* 6 Jj1 s
8l 1
ii»
In comparing the above with the table on the next page,in which the dates are given, it will be readily observablewith what regularity the proportionate height of the columnsincreased from the earliest example at Corinth to the latest,the Agora at Athens : the last, however, forming somewhatof an exception to the rule, the height being less in thiscase than in the two previous examples, viz; those of thetemple of Jupiter Nemaeus, and of the Portico of Philip ofMacedon . The diminution of the shaft will be seento average about 15 minutes, the upper diameter ranging
le, ^tb 0 *
from 49J in the Portico of Philip , a l at ® buSfi' n ff ( vbt( 1 ? 8 ^the temple at Selinus, one of the ear „„ r ati ve Uk e ' f ’ S eaffording additional proof of the co®Pattest* 011 .[jitf 3 '.of the later structures. We have to ca t jje ® r .
to the general equality in height betw e t>v0 e* tb
and frieze, noticing at the same time one -gci® ? upE .in which there is a considerable variat'on, ^ 0 f j 9at Agrigentum ; the height of the arc ^^jjabl®'colonnade in the temple of Neptune is r ethat of the frieze and cornice at Egesta.