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  2. Corinthian order - Wikipedia

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    A single Corinthian column stands free, centered within the cella. This is a mysterious feature, and archaeologists debate what this shows: some state that it is simply an example of a votive column. A few examples of Corinthian columns in Greece during the next century are all used inside temples. A more famous example, and the first ...

  3. Fluting (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Top of a Corinthian column in Rome, showing the flat fillets. Columns in buildings of the Doric order were almost always fluted; [3] the unfluted columns of the temple of Segesta in Sicily are one of the reasons that archaeologists believe the temple was never completed, probably because of war. They demonstrate that the plain columns, made of ...

  4. Category:Corinthian columns - Wikipedia

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  5. List of ancient Roman temples - Wikipedia

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    Base and 11 Corinthian columns, found inside later buildings. Roman temple of Vic, Spain. Substantially rebuilt, after it was found covered by a castle. Temple of Augustus in Barcelona, Spain. Four large columns on base, found within a later building. Temple of Diana, Mérida, Mérida, Spain.

  6. Colonne di San Lorenzo - Wikipedia

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    The colonnade, consisting mainly of 16 tall Corinthian columns in a row, now fronts an open square. In the 4th century, the columns were moved here, after removal from a likely 2nd century pagan temple or public bath house structure. [1] South of the columns, one of the medieval gates still has some Roman marble decoration in place.

  7. Votive column - Wikipedia

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    A votive column (also votive pillar) is the combination of a column (pillar) and a votive image. [1] The presence of columns supporting votive sculptures in Ancient Greek temples is well attested since at least the Archaic period. The oldest known example of a Corinthian column is in the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae in

  8. Forum of Nerva - Wikipedia

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    The façade was hexastyle (six columns on the front) with the pronaos (front room) containing two or three columns and antae on each end (architecturally representing wooden supports, holding up the roof of ancient wood-built temples). These columns were Corinthian in order and made from Phrygian marble. [5]

  9. Bassae Frieze - Wikipedia

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    The Bassae Frieze is the high relief marble sculpture in 23 panels, 31 m long by 0.63 m high, made to decorate the interior of the cella of the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae. It was discovered in 1811 by Carl Haller and Charles Cockerell , and excavated the following year by an expedition of the Society of Travellers led by Haller and ...