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Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)

Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 63

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adornedwith leaf-work. The capitalitself consists of, first, anastragal moulding; abovewhich is an echinus, sculp-tured into eggs and serpentstongues; and above this—sometimes with a torus, or semicircular moulding, inter-vening— the ca7ialis (channel), from which sj^ring thespiral volutes, which… … Ionic Capital. THE CORINTHIAN ORDER. 6i which, we are told, was suggested to the fancy of thecelebrated sculptor Callimachus by the spectacle of abasket, covered by a tile, and partially concealed among

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