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 THESEUM, ERECHTHEUM, AND OTHER WORKS. 183 Museum, was was one figured also of this type, in Texier's " Asia might be made in some future rearrangement to re-erect it as a whole. The column at the left is entirely ancient, but the proper capital, of course, had an angle volute. Fragment 938 is a part of the cymatium with a lion's head ; 935 and 936 are the antse capitals ; 637 is part of the console from the entrance, it may be combined with the door architrave figured by Falkener. The capitals are, as remarked on page 167, derived from the Erech- theum. (Fig. 178.) There was no frieze, but the epistyle was sculptured, and on it rested the bold dentils of the cornice. A tomb at Pinara, of which a drawing by Scharf is in the Lycian Portfolio at the (Fig. 181.) So also Minor," and the early Doric temple of Assos. The friezeless entablature, as has been said, is an Asiatic characteristic. A good deal of painting can be traced on the lacunar stones. On the panel of one is a head, in others there were palmette ornaments. Fig. 182 shows the patterns on the margins of the lacunaria. The date of the Nereid monument is still discussed. Furt- wangler claims that it and the Hereon of Gjolbaschi belong to the fifth century, are of original Ionic style, and do not imitate Attic models ; " the Dioskouros of the Acroterion, of which the head is extant, can hardly be placed later than 440, as it re- sembles the style of the metopes of the Parthenon." Kekule, in the official German handbook on Greek sculpture, still maintains this view, and discusses our monument before the Parthenon itself. On the other hand, Dr Six argues that it should be dated about 375 to 360 B.C. For this view he gives several reasons, including two points which have independently con- vinced me — the resemblance of the acroteria to those of Delos, Fig. 182.- -Nereid Monument, painted Decoration.