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Volute capitals were known in Hittite architecture in Anatolia and in Mesopotamia as early as 870 bc. Very elaborate capitals were created in Achaemenian Persia.
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use in Ionic order

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…and in the scrolls, or volutes, that droop over the front and rear portions of the echinus in the capital. The echinus itself is carved with an egg-and-dart motif. The height of the entire Ionic order—column, base, capital, and entablature— is nine lower diameters. The base of the column has…
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