Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 86
byone or two rows of acanthus leaves,above which were pairs of branchingscrolls meeting at the corners in spi-ral volutes. These served to support the angles of amoulded abacus with concave sides (Fig. 30). One ex-ample, from the Tower of the Winds (the clepsydra ofAndronicus Cyrrhestes) at Athens,… … FIG. 30.—GREEK CORINTHIANORDER. (From the monument of Lysi*crates.)
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