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ARCHITECTURAL INSCRIPTION. 



V. Epicranitides * c four feet in length, three feet in width, a foot 



and a half in thickness. 

 I Angular -j d (epicranitis) seven feet in length, four feet wide, a 



foot and a half in thickness. 



Eaves joint-titles J e not placed. 



I Continuation § of the epicranitides, ten feet in length, a foot and 

 a half in height. 



II Portions in continuation of the epistylia||, four feet in length, 

 five palms in width. 



I Capital of a column f , to be above the window-jamb II", not 

 placed ; a foot and a half wide ; a foot and a half in thickness. 



V Epistylia** 8 not placed, eight feet long, two feet and a palm wide, 

 two feet in thickness. 



* The Epicranitides were tiles forming the sima, or top-bed of the cornice belonging to 

 the pediments. 'E.TrUpa.vov, from which the term is derived, signifies fastigium and vertex. 

 — Poll. lib. ii. c. 4. 3. 



f The angular Epicranitis was that at the vertex of the fastigium, or pediment. 



X ToyydKoi Aifloi, I imagine to be the upright circular pieces, terminating the joint-tiles 

 at the eaves or gutters of the roof. By joint-tiles I mean those which were placed over 

 the meeting joints of the flat tiles; they were equal to them in length, but narrow; re- 

 sembling in their outward form an hexagonal prism cut in two. They extended from the 

 iidge of the roof down to the eaves, or gutters. In some temples, these, as well as the 

 common, or flat tiles, were made of clay. The imbrex^ or eaves-tile, of potter's earth, 

 was termed by the Greeks o-royyuAoe»S>}f, or yoyyvAoetirjs, xepupos : when made of marble, 

 the word a/Soj would probably be substituted for xega/Ao^. The joint-tiles are mentioned 

 in a subsequent part of the inscription. 



§ Avr/pjgos means, I presume, a corresponding portion, or continuation, of the member 

 of the building with which the term is conjoined, perhaps the contiguous piece. 



|| The epistylia were blocks extending from centre to centre of two adjoining columns. 

 In temples where columns were not employed to form a peristyle round the building, as in 

 the example before us, the epistylia were nevertheless continued along the flanks. The 

 two portions alluded to in this passage are said to be adjoining or contiguous, probably to 

 the five mentioned almost immediately afterwards. 



MercjTrov, that part of the forehead immediately above the interval between the eyes. 

 In this place it means part of the building above the interval, or jamb, between two 

 windows. 



** The epistylia here alluded to, seem to be those upon the wall, beginning from the 

 angle of the building. The length of each piece being eight feet, the extent of all five 

 together would have been greater than the length of the building in front. One described 



