A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 261
Capital; Hathob C.IPITAL AT Df.N- DKRAH, UpperEgypt. CAPITAL girder which carries a roof, aud the capital isagain a purely ornamental feature used to dec-orate that important point of the columnarstructure where the vertical passes into the hori-zontal. It has been urged that the Ionic capital … Capital from Betocrsa, Syrl\. took its origin in a short longitudinal pieceforming two corbels, and intended to diminishthe unsupported reach of a lintel, girder, orbeam between two posts. That is to say, thetheory is that the Ionic column is the develop-ment in stone, and in highly specialized…
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