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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 77

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Fig. 63. Types of Colctmxs. adorned the centralpart of the corniceover all temple door-ways (Fig. 58). Columns had shaftsof three types: thecircular or cylindrical,the clustered, and thepolygonal or proto-doric (Plate III, 10, 11; Fig. 63, a, h, c). The fisrttwo tapered upward in most cases, and…

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