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Title: Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: American Technical Society
Subjects: Architecture Building
Publisher: Chicago : American Technical Society
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of the capital, as in the corner capital fromthe Temple on the Ilissus at Athens, shown in plan in Fig. G2, whichshould be compared with the plan of the capital on this plate. It willbe noticed that in order to show the complete volute in this angle itwas necessary to throw out the roll at the back of the capital, openingthe space between it and the ornamented egg-and-dart of the echinusmoulding which follows in plan the circular shape of the shaft.This would produce a certain awkwardness of the soffit, seen whenlooking up at the capital from the inside of the porch, which wouldseemingly offset the advantage gained by completing the circle of thetwo volutes shown on this internal angle. It also necessitates the pe-culiar shape of abacus on that corner, completed in plan in PlateXLVI by the dotted lines. To be sure, this is much more logical initself than breaking out the abacus on the opposite exterior angle overthe corner volute; but it is questionable if the effects in elevation 113
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