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Title: The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896 Wood, J. E Davies, Benjamin Rees
Subjects: Classical antiquities Archaeology
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ses at Pompeiifurnish an interesting particular in this respect: many of theperistyles have an uneven number of columns both at the sidesand ends, where there is no necessity for this arrangement. Thebest example that can be cited is the house of the Faun, themost splendid house yet excavated, and which has seven by ninecolumns in the peristyle, and eleven by thirteen in the hortus;and the house of the coloured capitals,—which, from its sym- entrances necessarily required a greater opening. The porticoes of tetrastyle por-ticoes, as that on the north side of the Erechtheura, wliich is 3-6) 9, are also fre-quently increased, in order to give greater breadth to the composition. * Professor Cockerell has brought to my notice the circumstance, which I hadoverlooked, that an uneven number of columns occurs in several of the Egyptiantemples. f See the plans of the Parthenon, (as established by Mr. Knowles, GroundPlan of the Temple of Minerva at Athens,) the Temples of Apollo at Bassse, of
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