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To: curmudgeonII

How cool is that? I've only ever seen the big 3 in capital styles, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. Now we have the Phoenician?

Can't wait to read more on this discovery..and the new one in Egypt as well!


5 posted on 02/28/2006 12:12:16 PM PST by SueRae
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To: SueRae
How cool is that? I've only ever seen the big 3 in capital styles, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. Now we have the Phoenician?

The Romans also had a couple of capitals, the Tuscan, simpler than any of the Greeks and the Composite , which was sort of a convoluted Corinthian.
The Egyptians had a capital on top of their columns which may have been called Papyrus.

11 posted on 02/28/2006 1:19:05 PM PST by curmudgeonII (One man...and the Lord...are a majority.)
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