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THE SECOND CITY: TROY.

[Chap. III.

to somewhat more than 20 m., and that, consequently, the proportion of its breadth to its length is exactly as 1:2. It cannot be determined now whether there was still a third room on the north-west side (in correspondence with the division of the temple B), because the western portion of the edifice has been cut away by the great northern trench.

The pronaos, p, is 10.15 m. broad by 10.35 m. deep, and therefore just a square. The front ends of the lateral walls (marked o) were cased with vertical wooden jambs,

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No. 27.—Parastades on the front ends of the lateral walls of temple A, consisting of six vertical wooden jambs.^[1]

for, as the wall-corners consisted of bricks, they might have been easily destroyed without this consolidation (see woodcut, No. 27). These jambs, of which there were six at each extremity, stood on well-wrought foundation-stones; their lower parts are preserved, standing on the stones, but, of course, in a calcined state. Each of these wooden jambs was about 0.25 m. square, so that the six jambs made up fully the wall thickness of 1.45 m. We thus see in this temple, that the parastades or antae, which are customary in the Greek temples, and merely fulfilled in them an

↑ The dark horizontal bands between the courses of bricks in this engraving No. 27 indicate the grooves which had once been filled with wood, and were now found empty. The shading of these empty grooves is not well done; it ought to be much darker.

[1] The dark horizontal bands between the courses of bricks in this engraving No. 27 indicate the grooves which had once been filled with wood, and were now found empty. The shading of these empty grooves is not well done; it ought to be much darker.

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