Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 98
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… … Fig. 79. Ahuri-mazda fro3i a Relief. of the Greeks. Whether their origination is to be cred-ited to the Persians, or, as is more likely, to the Ionianand other races of Asia oNIinor, is not clear; but the Per-sian was the earliest developed architecture in which theywere systematically employed.…
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