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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 97

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ged lions andwinged bulls were based on Assyrian prototypes. Thewood-constructions of ^ledia and Asia Elinor gave the suggestions for theforked capital, thebanded architrave andthe dentil. The leafornaments on the bases(Fig. 77, d) and theshorter leaf-ornamentsresembling eggs anddarts (Fig. 77, c)… … flG. 78. Voi.uTKS OF A Capital,Persepolis. pet. PHRYGIA, LYDIA AND PERSIA capitals, is possibly derived from the papyrus-bundlemolding. The torus, which aj^pears in the column bases,the bead-and-reel, the shaft-fluting, the decorated col-umn-base, the banded architrave, were all destined to be-come…

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