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 1 82 THESEUM, ERECHTHEUM, AND OTHER WORKS. department, which shows that he made the width of the front at the epistyle under the cornice 22 feet and the front columnia- tions 6.9. Fellows published his restoration in 1848. He did not fully appreciate the architectural evidence, and on finding that he had recovered all four angle pieces of one of the sculptured bands he proceeded on the assumption that he had found the whole of the slabs of that frieze, and that by adding up their collective length he might obtain the total perimeter of the upper part of the monument. The resulting dimensions were a good deal smaller than the basement, and to make the archi- tectural members fit he put four columns with short epistyles on the fronts, and orAy five columns with the long epistyles on the flanks. Falkener, in the " Museum of Classical Anti- quities," worked over the evidence again, and showed that there were probably six columns on the flanks, and that the wider columniation were in front, but apparently fearing to increase the size too much more than Fellows, he made the curious proposition that the epistyle stones PINARA we have were longer than the columniations, Fiff. 181.— Sculp- which he suggested were cut only 6.5I and 6.2, tured Architrave, and not the total length of the stones. He thought he found a confirmation of this in the spacing of the lacunar stones, and assumed that three were intended to cover each bay. As he thus narrowed his front, he was driven to narrowing his pediment also, and thus arose the suggestion that the tympanum may have been lessened through being fitted into rebates. Further, he objected to figures standing on the lower angles of the pediment as acroteria, but the evidence here again is against him. The actual restoration of the front set up by Dr Murray at the Museum must approximate closely to the facts, but it is a pity that it was not placed where the height would allow the entablature and pediment to be placed over the columns. This is one of the completest Greek buildings known, certainly the most perfect in Western Europe, and an endeavour