Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 81
robable origin of these orders will be separately con-sidered later on, THE DORIC. The column of the Doric order (Figs. 26, 27)consists of a tapering shaft rising directly from the stylo-bate or platform and surmounted by a capital of great sim-plicity and beauty. The shaft is fluted with sixteen… … groov^es called annidce^ and a plain square abacus or cap.Upon this rests a plain architrave or epistyle^ with a narrowfillet, the t(B7iia^ running along its upper edge. The frieze above it is divided into squarepanels, called the metopes^ sepa-rated by vertical triglyphs havingeach two vertical…
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