510 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAT, the angle of the vertex would also divide the 
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lintel into two equal parts. Such a line has 
been used by the antient sculptor for the po- 
sition of a pillar exactly resembling a sepulchral 
Stele, resting upon a pedestal over the lintel ; 
but this pillar is most singularly inverted, the 
major diameter of the shaft being placed up- 
permost; so that, contrary to every rule we 
are acquainted with respecting antient pillars, 
its diameter is less towards the base than at 
the capital. As to the order of architecture 
denoted by this pillar, it is rather Tuscan than 
Doric; and it is remarkably ornamented by four 
balls, placed horizontally above the Abacus. 
There is also a circular ornament, or Or/;, in 
the front of the pedestal, which is a double 
Torus. The pillar is further supported by two 
Panthers ; one standing erect on either side of 
it, with his hinder feet upon the lintel, but with 
his two fore-paws upon the pedestal of the 
pillar. The heads of these animals seem to have 
been originally raised, fronting each other, 
above the capital; where they probably met, 
and occupied the space included by the vertex 
of the triangle ; but they have been broken off, 
and no part of them is now to be seen. The 
two Panthers, thus placed on the two sides of 
