Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 469
rtain details in the Parthenon which are not usual in theDoric style. (For the Doric column, see Nos. 506, 507.)The cella, or temple proper, is divided by a cross wall intothe hundred-foot temple (vecus eKarofiireSos), which con-tained the statue, and the Parthenon proper, from whichthe name was… … The building stands on a podium to which steps lead up.The columns spring directly from the stylobate,withoutdistinct bases, and have simple capitals, consisting of asquare abacus which is connected with the column bymeans of a cushion-shaped echinus. These features arecharacteristic of the Doric…
Classical antiquities
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