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To: blam
Looks more like a Grecian Doric column.


20 posted on 04/08/2007 10:15:30 PM PDT by Tribune7 (A bleeding heart does nothing but ruin the carpet)
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To: Tribune7
Looks more like a Grecian Doric column.

Exactly. Romans used columns, but the photo doesn't distinguish between Greek and Roman columns. Now if an arch were used, that would be Roman.

21 posted on 04/08/2007 10:23:48 PM PDT by Plutarch
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Ahhhh.... light is placed on the subject to increase the truth.


26 posted on 04/09/2007 6:59:33 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. Don't eat Spinich. The spinich growers are against the war and funding our troops)
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To: Tribune7
The column in this tomb has a pedestal, which Greek-period Doric columns lacked.



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Columnas de estilo de Doric

28 posted on 04/09/2007 10:27:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Monday, April 2, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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