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A text-book of the history of architecture (1904)

Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 45

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The former type, with eight, sixteen, or thirty-two sides (in these last the arrises or edges are emphasizedby a sHght concavity in each face, like embryonic fluting),have a square abacus, suggesting the Greek Doric order,and giving rise to the name proto-Doric (Fig. 6). Col-umns of this type are…

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