Top View of the Ionic Capital from the Temple of Minerva Polias at Priene

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These volutes, or scrolls, when viewed from the side, appear to meet in the middle, and form a wavy line over the echinus. The intervals of the spiral coils are slightly hollowed, in order to bring them into more relief, and in this way the so-called channel is formed, which is continued in the horizontal portion which connects the volutes.

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Ionic order, plan, greek architecture, top view, volutes, cross section of the Ionic Capital from the Temple of Minerva Polias at Priene

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Greek Architecture, Columns: Capitals

Source

A. Rosengarten, W. Collett-Sandars A Handbook of Architectural Styles (New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895)

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