The volute in architecture and architectural decoration with particular reference to its introduction into the Ionic order (1918)
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may call a holsterIonic. In these primitive types the ec-hinus is omitted and thus it wouldseem to have been a later refinement.Its introduction dates, no doubt,froma time after the change in materialsfrom wood to stone, and in it we may Fig. 15 see only the echinus of the Doric capital used as a… … 29 and Messa, in the Island of Lesbos, (Fig.17) appear as elaborateattempts to make the early spiral capital, horn of structure,a decorative form. Even here the spirals appear distinctly Aegeanin character, rather than Assyrian, being spirals of severalturns while most of the Assyrian voiutes are…
