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 THESEUM, ERECHTHEUM, AND OTHER WORKS. 153 cypress dowels is preserved upstairs in the Bronze Room. It is needless to describe the procedure — the thing is before us. In the top bed of the capital is still a metal dowel which connected the capital and the epistyle. The length of moulded band is even more instructive. We have the heading joints, polished around the margin and rough picked within, and on the top bed there are six sinkings of three different kinds. Two were for metal dowels, 3^ x ^-. Two others at the lateral edges are of I- form. They are the halves of the matrices of H -shaped cramps which linked stone to stone. Further in are two pits sunk into the bed, inclined at an angle ; these were prepared for the forceps, which grasped the stone so that it might be lifted by a pulley. This same stone furnishes beautiful examples of 4/ 0^^ w 5? 'i: ■,^:S 'J~ ■4 j^a %/%l;i i 9 S'. « f f I Fig. 151. — The Propytea : Painted Decoration. Greek moulding profiles of the best time. On one of the mould- ings may be traced a leaf pattern, the shadow of the bright colour decoration which once adorned it. (Fig. 151.) Like all other Greek buildings it was fully decorated with colour. The mutules, and therefore the triglyphs, were blue ; the spaces between the mutules were red, and had a rich palmette ornament in each ; the cymatium had large " eggs and tongues " painted on it. The Nhce and Ilissus Temples. Four slabs of the frieze and an angle capital in the Museum are described as having belonged to the Nike temple.* An was also a temple to Athena Nike (Pausanias).
 * The wingless Victory — more properly Athena Nike. At Megara there