THe InTERIOR BUILDINGS. 169 
Only a very few details relating to the buildings have been 
recovered. The mouldings are sufficiently characteristic of Roman 
type, but while they are not wanting in boldness, the quirking of 
the cymatium exhibited is a form inconsistent with the style in its 
purity. The examples are all single mouldings and of little diver- 
sity, but some of them may have been components of an assem- 
blage. Referring to plate IITA., fig. 7 shows a section of parapet 
coping worked with quirked cyma and fillet ; fig. 9, a door or 
window rybat, the reveal of which is of ogee form; fig. 10, part 
of a pier cap, also worked with the quirked cyma; and fie. 11, 
horizontal and inclined pediment mouldings, the form being again 
the quirked cyma. These last exhibit sunk soffits, the dressing of 
which, however, is so dissimilar and inferior to other parts that it 
seems an afterthought. Probably the cornice, as constituted in 
the original building, embraced corona and bed-mould, and after- 
wards, when rebuilding took place, the cymatium was sunk as 
described, and. applied alone. 
The altars and other accessories present details more distinctly 
degenerate. The fragment fig. 20, plate IIIA. shows a sunk mould- 
ing; the framing of the historic altablet (fig. 15) is of low relief ; 
and the mouldings of the disciplina altar (figs. 13 and 14), besides 
being deficient in boldness, are constituted of broken curves. 
Those of the uninscribed altar, however (figs. 17 and 18), are of 
better form and proportion. These mouldings, apart from the 
cavetto of the base of the uninscribed altar, bear a curious degree 
of resemblance one to another. It will be observed that the 
cornice mould of the disciplina altar is a repetition of that of the 
base turned upside down, and in the uninscribed altar the only 
difference is the absence of the quirking of the base mould. 
The accessories are enriched more or less; profusely in some 
instances. The devices employed are the human figure (plate IIIA., 
fig. 22); dolphins, birds, leaves and stems of ivy, and the crescent (fig. 
4, Inscribed Stones); leaves of the oak tree, and thunderbolts (plate 
II., fig. 3); rosettes of various designs; architectural forms, cab- 
ling in variety, and leaves of the laurel (plate IIIA., figs. 21 and 
22); sacrificial implements and utensils (plate II. fig. 2) ; and belt- 
ines constituted of peculiar triangular-shaped depressions, the 
ridges between which form together zigzag lines. 
Two belts of these depressions, separated by a sunk beaded 
astragal, ornament the upper member of the disciplina altar, and a 
