Plate 15. The Temple of Apollo and the Portico of King Philippus on Delos

The Portico of King Philippus on the Island of Delos was, as the inscription on the architrave reads, dedicated by Philip V. to Apollo, and therefore erected in the 3d century B. C. The 6[…] diameters high, slightly tapered columns have a weak expressionless capital, with a small and straight line echinus, as shown at B. Also uninteresting are the weak architrave and the thin mutules.

The remains of the Apollo Temple on the island of Delos, the order of which is shown on Plate 15, probably belongs to the 3d century B. C. The practically 5[…] diameters high strongly tapered columns with heavy capitals have a mantel and therefore were unfinished. The triglyphs, wide in relation to their height, project over the front surface of the architrave, which is unusual. The structure was a Peripteral with 6 and 13 columns. The covering over the pteroma consisted of wood as ascertained by later excavations by the French government.

The Temple of Corinth, of which our plate shows a column and architrave is of the heaviest Doric order and probably one of the oldest. The monolithic columns of the same are of limestone and covered with stucco. They are counted as among the most stumpy, inasmuch as their height is 4[…] diameters, and they stand very close together. The wide spreading capital shows a high, strong swelling echinus with a shallow abacus, and the hypotrachelium or necking is separated from the shaft by three grooves. The architrave, the only remaining portion of the entablature, is high in relation to the column and is without guttæ under the regula. From the narrow spacing of the columns it is presumed that this Temple in a measure belongs to the "opus monotriglyphon" as triglyphs were placed only over the columns and none between. The Temple was, as the latest excavations by the German Archaeological Institute under Dorpfelds indicate, a Peripteral of 6 and 15 columns; the interior was divided into two cellas, and it was therefore a double Temple. The lower diameter of the columns on the long side was 1.72 meters and on the short side 1.63 meters. Remains of red painted wall and floor coating have been found at the later explorations.