Plate 32. The Temple on the Ilissus, continued

Plate 32 shows the plan and elevation of the corner capital and the base and capital of the antæ. The base of the antæ is somewhat lower than the column base and is a very successful modification of the ancient Ionic base from the Juno Temple at Samos (Plate 40, Fig. 10). The capital of the antæ was finished with painted ornament and on the neck was a painted flower band. The architrave was divided into three facias on the inner side and in the pronaos where it rested in the wall it had at its top a leaf-wave and thereunder a painted floral band. Stuart found of the latter traces of the painting shown at A and called by the Greeks anthemion.

In form, size and style the Temple on Ilissus is related to Nike Apteros, at the Propylæ of Athens.

The method shown on this plate of drawing the volute is somewhat improved upon by that shown on Plate 36.

As the Ionic capital had two different sides, it would have appeared unsymmetrical on the corner of a building and this drawback was obviated by the Grecian masters with a diagonal volute as shown on our plate and this arrangement was continually followed in Peripteral buildings, as shown by numerous examples.