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tical grooves, so that a cross-section of the capital midway between top 

 and bottom is a scalloped circle ; the subdivisions of the latter are 

 plane — except for the prominent midribs — or even slightly horizon- 

 tally concave, and separated by sharp ridges, so that a cross-section 

 similarly taken is anonagon.* (Fig. 15.) Fourth, the vertical section 

 of the bell capitals is in the main concave, but begins at the bottom in 



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an unmistakable convexity ; the vertical section of the palm capitals is 

 continuously concave from the bottom to the drooping edge. (Fig. 4.) 

 Fifth, the bell capitals are so much lower in proportion to their widths 

 than the palm capitals that, when the two occur in the same colon- 

 nade, the latter equals the former phis the ring of stalks below it.f 



The fans have a very pronounced midrib, from which the pinnately 

 disposed leaflets project on both sides, unless, as sometimes happens, 

 the detailed representation of the leaflets is omitted.^ The tips of the 

 fans droop considerably. At their bases there is sometimes an attempt 

 to delineate a fruit-stalk. 



The height of the capital varies from .27 to .32 of the shaft-height, and from 

 .19 to .22 of the column. These figures rise much above those in Order II., and 

 approach the highest in Order I., second group. 



The height of the capital, measured by its own greatest diameter, is from .68 

 to .83, — again much above Order II., and approaching Order I., B. 



The expansion of the capital ranges from 1.20 to 1.60 shaft-diameters, — 

 which is less than in Order II., but greater than in Order I. 



Abacus. — There is nothing of importance about the abacus except 

 that its dimensions are by no means so ill-adapted to the supporting 

 function of the capital as often heretofore. The architect's desire seems 

 to have been to leave the tips of the fans unencumbered, and no more. 



The abacus occupies from .037 to .066 of the whole column. It is not abnor- 

 mally lengthened. 



* Lepsius, i. 110. t E. g., Description, i. 6. i Ibid., iv. 41. 



Fig. 15. a. Horizontal section of compound bell capital with eight half bells. 

 6. Do. of palm capital with nine fans. The difference between the two, 

 not only in number of subdivisions but in their outline, is obvious. 

 (After the " Description " and Lepsius.) 



