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  2. National Capitol Columns - Wikipedia

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    The National Capitol Columns are a monument in Washington, D.C.'s National Arboretum. It is an arrangement of twenty-two Corinthian columns that were a part of the United States Capitol from 1828 to 1958, placed amid 20 acres (8.1 ha) of open meadow, known as the Ellipse Meadow.

  3. Column - Wikipedia

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    Carved from stone, the columns were highly decorated with carved and painted hieroglyphs, texts, ritual imagery and natural motifs. Egyptian columns are famously present in the Great Hypostyle Hall of Karnak (c. 1224 BC), where 134 columns are lined up in sixteen rows, with some columns reaching heights of 24 metres.

  4. Aquia Creek sandstone - Wikipedia

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    In the Capitol Building, the stone remains viewable in the walls and columns of the rooms adjoining the rotunda and in the spiral staircase. The Little Rotunda tobacco column colonnade is located on the Senate wing on this floor, designed by architect Benjamin Latrobe. Downstairs, the crypt's simple Doric columns have a brownish cast. In ...

  5. Corinthian order - Wikipedia

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    The oldest known example of a Corinthian column is in the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae in Arcadia, c. 450–420 BC. It is not part of the order of the temple itself, which has a Doric colonnade surrounding the temple and an Ionic order within the cella enclosure. A single Corinthian column stands free, centered within the cella.

  6. Ionic order - Wikipedia

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    Original polychromy in Ionic temples. The Ionic order originated in the mid-6th century BC in Ionia (broadly equivalent to modern day İzmir Province), as well as the southwestern coastland and islands of Asia Minor settled by Ionians, where Ionic Greek was spoken. The Ionic order column was being practiced in mainland Greece in the 5th century BC.

  7. Persepolis - Wikipedia

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    The stone columns of the Gate of All Nations, they are 16½ meters high and were topped with capitals in the form of a double bull. The Gate of All Nations, referring to subjects of the empire, consisted of a grand hall that was a square of approximately 25 m (82 ft) in length, with four columns and its entrance on the Western Wall.

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