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ATTIC BASE

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 884 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BASE  , the
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term given in
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architecture to the
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base of the
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Roman Ionic
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order, consisting of an upper and
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lower
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torus, separated by a
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scotia (q.v.) and fillets . It was the favourite base of the
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Romans, and was employed by them for columns of the Corinthian and Composite orders, and in
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Byzantine and Romanesque
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work would seem to have been generally adopted as a
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model .

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