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ARCHITECTURAL INSCRIPTION, 



V Stone door-frames eight feet and a palm in length, two feet and 

 a half in width ; of IV of these, some were wholly completed, 

 but it was necessary to place the black marble* against the 

 supercilia. f 



I Consol | to the hyperthyrum facing the east, half finished. 



Ill Pentelican stones to the altar .of the Thyecus, four feet in length, 



two feet and a palm in height, a foot in thickness. 

 I Other, three feet 



Remarks on the preceding Anagraphe, by the Editor. 



It is well known that many of the public edifices of Greece were 

 built by contract ; those who undertook the work were called 

 IpyoAa/Soj ; those who placed it out to them were l^yfrrta-jotru), and the 

 ^oKtfjLo.a-T'xi were the persons who examined it, when it was § finished. 

 The title of ima-TotTa) was peculiarly applied to those who inspected 



* The situation of the black marble between the ?uy«, or transverse pieces of the door- 

 frame, and the hyperthyra, or cornices above it, is analogous to that of the marble frize 

 between the epistylia and cornice. The black marble was therefore the same, probably, 

 as that mentioned in the forty-second line, under the epithet Eleusinian. Pausanias men- 

 tions a black stone or marble found under Parnassus, of which the walls of the city of 

 Ambryssus were built. The temple and statue of Diana at the same place were also of the 

 same material ; it was remarkable for its hardness. Pausan. x. 36. The stone found 

 around Parnassus is of similar formation with that produced by the quarries of Eleusis. 



The numeral letter prefixed to this sentence, was probably IT, although it has now the 

 appearance of two units; this, as well as the one next above and below it, are all placed too 

 high up in the inscription ; each should have ranged one line lower. 



f The upright pieces of a door-frame were called by the Romans, antepagmenta, and 

 those placed across them, supercilia. The latter are the Xpya. of the Greeks. In some in- 

 stances, nothing intervened between the supercilium and hyperthyrum; although very 

 often a sculptured frize was intermediately placed. 



%'Ovi is the handle of a vase, so called from its resemblance to the human ear. Ears 

 of the kind alluded to here, are something similar in shape to the Greek letter £. Vitruvius 

 calls these ornaments ancones and parotides. The last word I have corrected from the 

 edition of Vitruvius, published by Schneider, which has only very lately fallen into my 

 hands. The mnhs are termed by us consols, from the French console. 



§ Dodvvcll, Ann. Thuc. 135^; Athenoe, lib. vi.; Herod, vi. c. 62. 



