An image should appear at this position in the text.Fig. 155—Nike Temple:
Intersecting Volutes.
for the insertion of the cone employed to generate the curve of
the volute." I shall show below that the use of such cones is
most unlikely, and Inwood's suggestion that these holes were
for metal fastenings to which festoons might be suspended is
much more probable. Compare what is said as to the Erechtheum on p. 169. The well-known relief
of Icarus and Dionysos at the Museum
shows such festoons. Notice that the
egg and tongue moulding is only indicated under the volute; it is so at the
Propylæa also. Inwood's drawing of
this capital (plate 23) is not correct, for
in modifying it into an ordinary (not
angular) cap he has got into trouble with
the eggs and tongues, showing 22 instead of 24. Coming now
to the anta capital (fragment, No. 436), the profiles of the
mouldings and their height at the two temples were so exactly
alike that it would be impossible from these alone to decide to
which of the two the stone belonged, and it has in fact been
An image should appear at this position in the text.Fig. 156. — Winged
Nike, South Kensington
Museum.
assigned to the wrong one by the Museum
authorities. (Fig. 152.) Stuart, however,
figures the width of the Ilissus antæ as 20.5,
and as the lowest part of the capital projected
beyond the pilaster making a "facia" this
was nearly 21 inches wide. Ross gives the
similar dimension at the Nike temple as
.495 m. Now the width of the cap at the
Museum, which is 19½, agrees with the latter,
and the stone consequently comes from the
Nike temple. It agrees with this that the
order of the Ilissus temple was about 1.6
higher than that of the other. I think I can
show further that our stone was obtained with
the other fragments of the Nike temple
brought away by Lord Elgin. We are told that when the temple
was broken up, its materials were used for building a bastion,
and later, "the friezes which had been built into a wall by the
Propylaea were removed by Lord Elgin." Now amongst the
Stuart papers in the MSS. Room there is a careful drawing of
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156
THESEUM, ERECHTHEUM, AND OTHER WORKS.
