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Egg-and-Dart
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Description: Egg-and-dart is an ornamental device often carved in wood, stone, or plaster quarter-round ovolo mouldings, consisting of an egg-shaped object alternating with an element shaped like an arrow, anchor or dart. Egg-and-dart enrichment of the ovolo molding of the Ionic capital is found in Ancient Greek architecture at the Erechtheion and was used by the Romans.
Source: A. Rosengarten, W. Collett-Sandars A Handbook of Architectural Styles (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895) 89
Keywords: greek architecture, egg and dart, ovolo moulding, ovolo molding, capital
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