Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.

  • Karl Otfried Müller
Date:
1852
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    black stone j utting out of the ground. Subterranean store-houses of fruits and other things were also everywhere common, as the atiQol for corn in Thrace, Philo Mathom. vett. p. 88. the favis883 in Italy, the 'amkmi for fruits, wine, and oil at Athens, the German cellars. Tacit. Germ. 16. Phry- gians and Armenians even dwelt under the earth (Vitruv. ii. 1, 5. comp. Schol. Nicand. Alexiph. 7. Xenoph. Anab. iv, 6, 25, &c.). 3. To these belong the pyramidal thalamus of Cassandra (Lycophr. 350), the brazen one of Danae, that of Alcraene, of the Proetides. Pans. oxvQol ■77a,'^^i'ju'jii comp. Iph. Aul. 738. [The pyramids, not far from ; the Erasinos and Lernse, of which Mure gives a drawing, Tour in Greece, ii, 195. as a monument of the heroic period, similar to another in Argolis, Gel. p. 102. and that mentioned by Pans, ii, 36. Comp. L. Ross. Reisen in Peloponnes. S. 142. Stackelberg La Gr^ce P. 1829. vignette, comp. §. 294 R. 6.]—The brazen cask of the Aloidse (II. v, 387), and of Eurystheus (ApoUod. ii, 5, l), is conceived as a kind of building. [Welcker Kl. Schr. ii. s. cxv.] In later times also there was used as a prison at Messene (Liv. xxxix, 50. Plut. Philopoemen 19) a thesaurus publicus sub terra, saxo quadrato septus. Saxum ingens, quo operitur, machina su- perimpositum est. 1 49 The MycenjBan treasury, the best-preserved specimen of this so wide-spread and often employed species of building, is constructed of horizontal courses of stone which gradually approach and unite in a closing-stone (ag//-owa roO Travro's), and 2 is provided with a pyramidal door skilfully roofed over. It was probably, like many similar buildings, Imed with bronze plates [the holes for] the nails of which are still visible [m horizontal rows] ; but on the fagade it was decorated m the richest manner with half-columns and tablets of red, green, and white marble, which were wrought m quite a pecuhar style, and ornamented with spirals and zig-zags. 1 The door 18 feet high, 11 feet broad below, the lintel ow stone, 27 feet long, 16 broad (22 and 20 according to HaHer in Pouquevdle) On the wedges between the single stones of a course, CockereH m Leake, Morea ii. p. 373. Donaldson, pi. 2. 2 On the fragments of the Hning, two plates of which are in the . Brit Mus. Wiener Jahrb. xxxvi. p. 186. Donaldson, pi. 4 5. [These fragments, found in the neighbourhood (the precise spot unknown), are by others supposed to have been fixed on the waUs of the gateway. W. Mure, Tour in Greece, ii, 167. Stackelberg La Grfece places them - he portal Three fragments of these ornaments also at Munich m the Umted Collections.] 50 The Greeks of the mythic ages no doubt also employ- Pfl tlie same powerful style at an early period m their tem- pts (1), (1), outlets of lakes and canals (3), and even harbours (4). 1. Paus. and others relate many legends regarding I><=\pW;^^ temple ; the brazen one was probably the same with the o.So, (§. 48,