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Article: Capital C from the Argive Heraion.
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- Hesperia
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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ABSTRACT
A Doric column capital from the Argive Heraion, capital C, has been widely regarded as belonging to a very early (7th- or early-6th-century B.C.) stage in the development of the Doric capital. The author argues here from technical evidence that the capital instead dates to the Roman period and that it was created as a replacement element for a repair to the 6th-century B.C. North Stoa.
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In the original publication of the architecture of the Argive Heraion, which appeared in 1902, E. L. Tilton illustrated a Doric capital, capital C, which has an unfluted neck and broad, rounded echinus (Figs. 1, 2). (1) The circumstances of ...