A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic architecture (1888)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · London [etc.] Parker and co. · leaf 190
is ranked as the second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. The shaft of the column has twenty flutings, which are sepa- rated by a sharp edge, and not by a fillet, as in the other orders, and they are less than a semicircle in depth : the moulding below the abacus of the capital is an ovolo… … Roman Doric. several rows of guttae or drops. In these respects the order, as worked both by the Greeks and Romans, is identical, but in other points
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