But we may fairly conclude from this evidence that in some of the Assyrian town-walls the proportion between the plinth and the superstructure was very different from what it is in the only example that has come down to us.
This plinth was about twenty-three feet long, and rather more than three feet high.
It was used to give strength to the foot of the wall, which consisted of a limestone plinth nearly four feet high, surmounted by a mass of crude brick, rising to a total height of about forty-four feet.
Chipiez has only given his tower seven stages, because that number seems to have been sacred and traditional, and Herodotus may very well have counted the plinth or the terminal chapel in the eight mentioned in his description.
The other composition is to be found on a plinth in the doorway of the harem at Khorsabad.
Above a plinth with a gentle salience rises the altar itself, supported at each angle by the paw of a lion.
In the palace of Sargon, for instance, wherever the sculptured slabs are absent we find a plinth painted black in distemper.
Above the plinththus formed they were covered with roughly executed paintings upon plaster, instead of with enamelled bricks.
These pilasters stand upon a plinth between three and four feet high, so that any contact with the dirt of the floor need not have been feared.
Nothing but the first two stages, or rather the plinth and the first stage, now remain at Nimroud of what must have been the chief temple of Calah.
Moreover, the contrast between the plinth and the white wall above it must have had a certain decorative effect.
When Xenophon crossed Assyria with the "ten thousand," he noticed this method of constructing city walls, but in all the enceintes that attracted his attention, the height of the plinth was much greater than that of Khorsabad.
The transept is divided by the string-courses into four stages, and has a very massiveplinth which is lower than that of the nave, thus expressing the slope of the ground.
The base consists of two round mouldings separated by a hollow and fillets, and overhangs theplinth so much as to suggest that the floor just here has been lowered.
The well-marked plinth of this east end has been already noticed.
From this plinth and corbels springs a cluster of no less than five shafts, which, by their united width, conceal the springing of the upper order of the main arches.
Two flat pilaster-buttresses rise out of the slope of the plinth and run up the aisle-wall, each terminating short of the parapet in two sets-off close together.
The last three bays of the clearstorey and the last two of the aisle are Decorated work, probably of the end of the thirteenth century, and here the level of the plinth is again lowered to suit the slope of the ground.
The string between the two storeys is carried round these shafts, and their circular bases overhang the plinth and rest on small blocks, while the capitals are square-topped, as in Archbishop Roger's work.
The west front is now divided by a large buttress of many stages terminating in a slope, but the plinth of this buttress is apparently original.
The plinth is considerably higher than that of the west front.
Along the edge of the white plinth were a row of two kinds of books, Officium Beatæ Virg.
Pescado, which is elevated about a foot above the ground on a base or plinth of masonry.
The walls are divided by many vertical lines of pilasters which rise from theplinth to the eaves-cornice.
The detail is an extremely good combination of brick and stone, whilst a magnificent plinth of stone and marble gives great force to the work.
The west front is of immense size and width, but its only finished parts are the plinth and doorways, the whole of the rest being left in rough brick.
Its extreme loftiness is enhanced by the groups of shafts which divide it into bays, and rise from the plinth to the cornice.
What was happening on the plinth seemed to have a lessened interest for Jean Dunbarton.
We demand VOTES FOR WOMEN' inscribed in black letters on the white ground of two pieces of sheeting stretched each between a pair of upright poles, standing one on either side of the plinth of Nelson's column.
She never lost her hold on them until the appearance on the plinth of a grave, rugged, middle-aged man in a soft hat.
Just then the mother of the Gracchi came to the edge of the plinth to open the meeting.
In front of the little row of women on the plinth a gaunt figure in brown serge was waving her arms.
Vida was looking over the crowd to where on the plinth of the historic column the little group of women and a solitary man stood out against the background of the banners.
Among others we may name those prisoners of war bound together, which Champollion copied from the plinth of a royal statue in the Ramesseum (Fig.
Standing upon the plinth and upon the planks of a scaffold, several workmen do their best to hasten the completion of the work, which is already far advanced.
Another rubric in the same papyrus says that the text was cut upon the alabaster plinth of a statue of Menkaura (Mycerinus), a king of the IVth dynasty, and that the letters were inlaid with lapis lazuli.
The first storey is about sixteen feet high, including the plinth at the bottom.
Above the plinth comes a sculptured group of figures, which is repeated in panels all round the pyramid, twice on each side.
The plinth must be as broad as the thickness of the wall against which the plinth is built.
LXVI--the lower drawing on the right hand side--the sarcophagus is shown between the columns, and above the entablature is a plinth on which the horse stands.
The hasty sketch on the right hand side illustrates the unsatisfactory effect produced when the plinth is narrower than the wall.
The interest of the crowd seemed to amuse him, he sate down on the plinth and drew out a handful of pice in lordly fashion.
Lesley; but Jack Raymond had grasped the child's meaning, and was passing to the other side of the plinth to see for himself.
A group of dancing-girls showed on the flat plinth of the shrine; musicians strummed here and there; here and there a conjurer essayed tricks.
Half a dozen worshippers grouped about the plinth heard the words and looked bridgewards; so did the Swami, and seized his advantage.
B Company instinctively slipped his feet from theplinth also.
Constructional Frame (as for Plinthor Cornice) showing application of the Dovetail Joint.
The flange carrying the pins or pivot is let into the top and bottom of the door, the remaining flange being let into the cornice and plinth respectively.
In this instance we see that a small portion is mitred at top and bottom edges, and when used in plinth or cornice work, or for making tea-caddies, etc.
The term mitreing is generally used to denote the type of joint used at the corner of a picture frame; or where two pieces of wood are bevelled away so as to fit each other, as the skirting or plinth mould at Fig.
This apparatus takes wide plinth or cornice moulds, and the angle may be altered by fitting temporary packing pieces under the work so as to tilt the moulding to the desired angle.
Down there, against the plinth of one of the lions, a young man leaned, with his arms round a girl, pressing her to him.
Owing to his appearance Mr. Lavender was able without opposition to climb up on the plinth and join the speaker, a woman of uncertain years.
A picture of interest as being the oldest by any North Italian painter in the Gallery--the date inscribed on the plinth below is 1367.
On the stone plinth whereon he leans is an inscription, "Stephanus Nani.
On the plinthis the legend of the Master-draper (see text opposite).
According to local tradition, this plinth was erected at the expense of a dishonest master-draper, convicted of selling by false measure.
The plinth separating the two stories is decorated with carved wreathed foliage.
On the plinth of the dividing pillar is a bas-relief, remarkable for its delicate carving.
Young Bertram smiled down on us from the plinth of the marble steps leading up to the marble summer house which stood in the centre of this Garden-of-Dead-Kings.
The metal reins have been attached to the upper surface of the plinthunder the right forearm, and also under the right hand, now lost; three dowel holes in this part of the plinth served for their attachment.
It is very probable that the plinth does not belong to the pedimental sculptures at all, and Sauer's plan of the floor of the pediment seems to leave no room for it.
These waves are treated in the conventional manner usual in representations of water in Greek art; their profile shown on the edge of the plinth approximates very nearly to the well-known wave pattern.
Fragment of a foot of a colossal statue of Apollo, together with a part of the plinth in the same block.
Above, it is roughly worked to fit theplinth of a statue.
James Greyman, meanwhile, had paused on the plinthto give a low whistle and look upward to the terraced roof.
A sort of hollow monolith raised on a plinth of three steps.
