ARCHITECTURAL INSCRIPTION. 



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Translation. 



Brosyn . . . es of Cephisia, Chariades of Agryle, Diodes of Cephi- 

 sia, the epistatae of the temple in the citadel, in which is the antient 

 statue ; Philocles of Acharnas the architect, Etearchus of Cydathe- 

 nseum the secretary ; have reported the works completed and half- 

 finished, as they found them to be, according to the decree of the 

 people proposed by Epigenes, in the archonship of Diocles ; the 

 Cecropic tribe presiding in the council, in which Nicophanes of Mara- 

 thon was secretary of the first prytany. 



We have found these parts of the temple half-finished at the 

 angle nearest the Cecropium. 



IV. Tiles * a not placed, four feet in length, two feet in width, a foot 



and a half in thickness. 

 I. Shoulder tile f b four feet in length, three feet in width, a foot. 



and a half in thickness. 



* The tiles were slabs of marble wrought with great precision ; every precaution calcu- 

 lated to keep out the wet being adopted in the mode of their formation. The meeting 

 joints of the tiles in the same line were saddled, as it is now termed ; that is, a rim, raised 

 above the surface, was left on each side ; so that if any wet found admission under the nar- 

 row strips that covered the meeting joint of two contiguous tiles, its further progress was 

 prevented. A similar kind of rim was left at the top of each tile, and the under side of the 

 one next above it was throated, or grooved, where it overlapped the other. The tiles 

 usually varied in length and breadth according to the scale of the building. In temples of 

 no great magnitude, such as the Erectheum, they were about two feet wide. The tiles at 

 the eaves of the roof were formed out of the sloping blocks immediately above the cornice, 

 which were almost invariably equal in width to two tiles. These are the tiles alluded to 

 in the beginning of the survey. The common tiles were seldom more than four inches 

 thick; they were sometimes made with clay, although every other part of the building was 

 marble. Where gutters were introduced at the eaves, they were hollowed out of these 

 blocks : the front of such gutters were formed into a molding, which Vitruvius calls the 

 sima. Whether or not gutters were carried along the eaves, the sima was made to sur- 

 mount the cornice of the pediments, and was returned for a short distance round the angle 

 of the cornice. 



t The tile here alluded to was probably that at the point or extremity of the pediment, 

 which was returned along the flank. It might be so termed, because here they were 

 placed immediately upon the humeri, as Vitruvius, speaking of this temple, calls the re- 

 turns of the building at the angles of the front. 



