This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...above. It seems probable that where great excellence of workmanship was aimed at, one drum was rotated upon another by means of a wooden pin inserted firmly in the lower drum; but this rotation was of only a few inches, probably, forward and back again, many times repeated. That would suffice to bring the two beds, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...above. It seems probable that where great excellence of workmanship was aimed at, one drum was rotated upon another by means of a wooden pin inserted firmly in the lower drum; but this rotation was of only a few inches, probably, forward and back again, many times repeated. That would suffice to bring the two beds, already carefully dressed, to a perfect adjustment. The practice of leaving the middle part of the bed sunk below the edge, so that the whole weight of the super 141--Drums for columns, found about 1883 in excavations on the Acropolis of Athens. The Acropolis Museum in the background. (From photo.) structure came upon the raised border, seems to have been very general. But that border was made so wide that there was nothing to fear from such a method of construction, while it greatly facilitated the production of perfectly close-fitting joints. These drums were moved and hoisted into place by means of ropes secured to the lugs left when the stone was cut, and having sometimes 6 or 7 inches of projection, sometimes much less. Those of the marble drums found on the Acropolis of Athens, in the filling of the rock-cleft just east of the Parthenon, are not more than half as large. Fig. 141 shows two of those blocks, as they lay, in 1883, in front of the Acropolis Museum. The left-hand block is the top drum for a Doric column, with the channelling begun, as a guide to the stonecutter who would do the channelling after the drums were all in place. The right-hand block is a rough drum with its lugs not yet removed, although the drum has been assigned to its future place in the shaft, and the work of cutting it to fit its place has been begun. The stones of the epistyle, 142--Drum of a column and block of the cornice; temple at Assos in Asia Minor. (From ...
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