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Title: Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: American Technical Society
Subjects: Architecture Building
Publisher: Chicago : American Technical Society
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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PLATE XXXVIII.(A reproduction at small size of Portfolio Plate XXXVIII.) STUDY OF THE ORDERS lOo indicates its more elementary form as well as its direct derivation fromthe rock-cut pier, is the absence of a base. The channels run directlydown, and stop against or upon the platform or stylobate upon whichthe shaft rests; and at the top they are worked out again to the horizon-tal fillets or annulets of the capital. The number of these channelsis always even. As has been said, the number of twenty was usuallyemployed, although in one example—that of the Great Temple atPaestum—have been found col-umns of twenty-four flutes in theexterior order, and columns oftwenty and even as few as six-teen flutes in the interior. Butin the best examples in Athens,the number is invariably twenty,w h i 1 e their section is alwayssemi-elliptical, or, in early work,the segment of a circle. The Greek Doric Capital.The capital of the Doric orderconsists of two principal parts, aplain Abacus and a mould

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