Fascinating Ruins - XV: Ionic Capital
Ionic capital from the sacred area.
The photo shows an example of the classical Ionic capital. No necking is present. The capital leans directly against the column’s shaft decorated with flutes and fillets. Astragal and echinus, respectively embellished with bead-and-reel and egg-and-dart motifs, hold up four volutes drawn by a geometric spiral developing for an angle equivalent to three circumferences. Honeysuckles leaves decorate the connection points between volutes and echinus. The line connecting the two volutes supports a cyma reversed abacus decorated with a leaf-and-dart motif.
Ionic capital
3rd – 2nd century BC
Magnesia ad Maeandrum, Ionia
Turkey
Fascinating Ruins - XV: Ionic Capital
Ionic capital from the sacred area.
The photo shows an example of the classical Ionic capital. No necking is present. The capital leans directly against the column’s shaft decorated with flutes and fillets. Astragal and echinus, respectively embellished with bead-and-reel and egg-and-dart motifs, hold up four volutes drawn by a geometric spiral developing for an angle equivalent to three circumferences. Honeysuckles leaves decorate the connection points between volutes and echinus. The line connecting the two volutes supports a cyma reversed abacus decorated with a leaf-and-dart motif.
Ionic capital
3rd – 2nd century BC
Magnesia ad Maeandrum, Ionia
Turkey