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Updated: June 27, 2025
It will be apparent from this that the column, together with the superstructure which rested upon it, must have played a very important part in Greek temple-architecture, and an inspection of any representations of Greek buildings will at once confirm the impression. We find in Greece three distinct manners, distinguished largely by the mode in which the column is dealt with.
Lastly, the crowning part is, in the Greek Doric, a single convex moulding, not very dissimilar in profile to the ovolo of the capital, and forming what we commonly call an eaves-gutter. In the Parthenon a continuous band of sculpture ran round the exterior of the cell, near the top of the wall. One other feature was employed in Greek temple-architecture.
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