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COLUMN. 



COLUMN. 



echinus and astragal. The modillion, which is set at intervals under 

 the corona, will be better understood by the annexed view of a 

 modillion of the Temple of Jupiter Stator, showing also the soffit, or 

 under-side of the corona, witli the enriched pannel between the modil- 



lions. The modillions support the corona, which is terminated with a 

 cymatium, and this moulding, in the example before us, is decorated 

 with lions' heads. 



In the Composite order, mutules are sometimes employed instead of 



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[Half the Corinthian capital, from Sir Wm. Chambers.] 



the Corinthian modillion. The orders are sometimes set on pedestals, 

 consisting of a square shaft, called the die, with a moulded base set on 



[Half the Composite capital, from Sir Win. Chambers.] 



a deep plinth. The die is surmounted with mouldings forming a 

 capital, but in reality resembling more the cornice of an entablature. 



[Attic Buc.] 



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[Ionic base at the 

 rropylaw of Eleusis.] 



[Base of the Erecthcum.] [Baas of the [Base of tho 

 Minerva Poliaa.] order of tho 

 Temple of 



Apollo Didy- 

 m.fus.] 



[Profile of the bases of tho 

 columns employed in the 

 Temple of Minerva Polias, 

 at Priene.] 



Chambers aHow, for the proportion of the die of the Tuscan pedestal, minutes ; tho Ionic, three modules, eighteen minutes ; and the Coriu- 

 two modules, twenty-four minutes ; for the Doric, three modules, six thian and Composite, four modules. The bases and capitala are 



