On account of the frieze being wanting in most of the Asiatic remains, although the architrave and cornice have been accurately measured, the height of the entablature cannot be ascertained. The only instance in which a frieze has been discovered is in the theatre of Laodicca; and there it is rather less than one-fifth of the entabla ture. In the temple of Bacchus at Teos, and Minerva Polias at Prienc, the architraves arc di% ided into three facia below the cymatium. Their proportions arc very different from those at Athens, though also elegant in character and effect.
In all the Asiatic Ionics, the crowning mouldings of the cornices arc cima•recta, less in projection than height. The derail bands are never omitted, and their height is a mean belt een that of the cima-recta and of the larima, corona, or drip, being uniformly greater than that of the corona, and less than that of the cima-recta. '['he cy matium of the denticulated band is recessed upwards, being almost entirely wrought out of the soffit of the corona, which nearly conceals its height. The height of the cornice, from the top of the chna to the lower edge of the derails, is equal, or nearly so, to that of the architrave. The 'height of the frieze, without its cyma tium, may be about one-fourth of the whole entablature.
We have Oise:1.sec] that the height of the Ionic column was originally eight diameters; the moderns have in creased it to nine. The shaft is generally cut into 24 flutes, with as many fillets. The altitude of the entabla ture may, in general, be two diameters; but it maw be increased, and should not be less than one-fourth of the height of the column in works of magnificence.
The base of the Athenian Ionics consists of two tori, having a scotia or trochilus between them, separated from the tori, abos c and below, by two fillets; the fillet above the inferior torus projects, in general, as far as the extremity of the superior torus, and the fillet be neath the upper torus projects beyond both. The scotia is very flat, its section forming an elliptic curve, which joins the fillet on either side. The tori and scotia are nearly of equal altitudes. In the temple on the Il•ssus, there is a bead and fillet on the upper torus, joining the fillet to the scape of the column; in the same temple, as well as in that of Erectheus, the upper torus of the base is fluted; but the lower part, which joins the upper sur face of the fillet above the scotia, is left entire. In the
latter temple the lower torus of the base of the Antx is receded ; and in that of 'Alinerva Polias it is fluted, each flute being separated from those on either side by two small cylindric mouldings of a qbandrantal section, join ing at their convexities. The upper scotia of the temple of Minerva Polias is also enriched with a guilloche. Vitrus ins has, very properly, termed this the ATTIC II A S it having been employed by the Athenians in all their Ionics; and, although the Ionians Ind another, more particularly appropriated to this order, they some times employed the Attic, as in the temple of Bacchus Teos. In the temple of Minerva I'olias at Priene, and that of Apollo Didynixus near Miletus, the bases con sist of a large torus, three pair of astragals, and two scotioe, inverted towards each other; the upper pair of astragals is below the torus, and the scotia intervenes bets% een each pair. In the former of these temples, an additional astragal separates the torus from the shaft. The torus is elliptical with its under part fluted ; there is likewise a flute in the upper part of the base. In the temple of Apollo Didyinxus, the upper torus is semi circular, and each bead of every pair is separated by a narrow fillet. This base differs but little from that as signed to this order by Vitruvius, only in the former the scotive arc inverted, and present a greater variety of pro file.
The volute, which is the great distinguishing feature of this order, in the Athenian Ionics, and the temple of Minerva Polias at Priem, the lower edge of the channel which runs between them is formed into a curve, bend ing downwards in the middle, and revolving about the spirals on either side. In the temple of Erectheus, and Minerva Polias at Athens, each volute has two channels formed by two distinct spiral borders; the borders form ing the exterior volute, and the under side of the lower channel, have between them a deep recess or spiral groove, which diminishes gradually in breadth, till it. loses itself in the centre of the eye. In the temple of Bacchus at Tens, the great theatre of Laodicca, and in all the Roman Ionics, the channel whereby the two vo lutes arc connected has no border on the lower edge, but terminates with a horizontal line, falling in a tangent to the commencement of the second revolution of each volute.