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260 GRECIAN AIICHITECTUBE. Part I. Scale for Plau. tn 2IJ 30 40 SB J ,n Jo 20 Ji' Scale for Elevation. Rhamnus (Woodcut No. 145), where the opening however can scarcely be called a doorway, as it extends to the roof, A third change was to put a porch of 4 pillars in front of the last arrangement, or, as appears to have been more usual, to bring forward the screen to the positions of the pillars as in the last example, and to place the 4 pillars in front of this. None of these plans admitted of a peristyle, or pillars on the flanks. To obtain this it was necessary to increase the number of pillars of the portico to 6, or, as it is termed, to make it hexastyle, the two outer pillars being the first of a range of 13 or 15 columns, extended along each side of the temple. The cell in this arrangement was a ,, ^ „^ , ^„, complete temple in itself — distvle in antis, 145. Small Temple at Rhamnus. ^ 1 .. ' most frequently made so at both ends, and the whole enclosed in its envelope of columns, as in Woodcut 146. Plan of Temple of Apollo at Bassae. Scale lUO ft. to 1 in. Plan of Parthenon at Athens. Scale lUO ft. to 1 in. 14^^. Plan of the great Temple at Selinus. (From Hittorf, "Arch. Antique en Sicile.") Scale 100 ft. to 1 in.