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 2o6 APPENDIX. The Acanthus Pillar. Soon after the Corinthian capital came into use, a further development was made in the " acanthus pillar," an example of which has recently been found at Delphi. In Donaldson's Fig. 214. — Acanthus Column, from a drawing by Don- aldson. Fig. 215. — Detail of the Top of Shaft, Monument of Ly- sikrates. sketches at the Institute of Architects, I find & drawing of a part of a similar pillar which was in a church at Athens. This was 1.3 in greatest diameter. (Fig. 214.) Now, one of the fragments assigned by Michaelis to the acroterion of the Parthenon, of which there is a cast in the basement of the British Museum, is also of the same pattern, but smaller. It can- not, I think, by any possibility be so early as the Parthenon. The flutings of the acanthus pillar of Delphi finish under each acanthus band in a series of leaf-like terminations, exactly like those of the Corinthian columns of the monument of Lysikrates, built in 335 B.C. (Fig 215.) The flutings of the Delphi Column fragment said to be from Parthenon.
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