ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENTS FROM THE PARTHENON.
350. The capital and uppermost drum of one of the Doric columns of the north side.
Width of abacus, 6 feet 7¼ inches; Penrose, Athenian Architecture, pl. 19, fig. 1.
351. Part of a marble tile-front. The roof of the Parthenon, like that of many other Greek temples, was formed of marble tiles, solenes, carefully adjusted. In the case of the Parthenon the tiles were placed side by side. Ridge tiles covered the joints, and the lower end of each ridge terminated in an anthemion. Hence the tile-front was called by the Greeks kalypter anthemotos. See the model of the Parthenon, and Michaelis, pl. 2, fig. 8.—Inwood Coll.
Height, 1 foot ½ inch.
352. Cast of a similar but more perfect tile-front, from the original at Athens.
Height, 1 foot 8½ inches; Michaelis, pl. 2, fig. 8; Inwood, Erechtheion, pl. 22.
353. Cast of lion's head from one of the angles of the pediment. This head, is worked from a block which forms the springing stone of both the cymatium and the corona of the pediment. In the modelling of the lion's head, and especially in the treatment of the mane, there is a noticeable austerity and conventionalism, such as is appropriate to a purely decorative piece of sculpture.
Height, 1 foot 4½ inches. See the model of the Parthenon; Penrose, Athenian Architecture, pl. 17; Michaelis, pl. 2, fig. 9; Brunn, Denkmaeler, No. 82 b.