HYPOTRACHELIUM (Gr. vaorpaxi7Awv, the

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• LOWER

lower

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• PART

part of the

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• NECK (O. Eng. hnecca; the word appears in many Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch ride, Ger. Nacken; in O. E. the common word was heals; cf. Ger. Hals)

neck, rphx Aos)  , in classical architecture, the space between the annulet of the echinus and the upper bed of the shafts, including, according to C . R . Cockerell, the three grooves or sinkings found in some of the older examples, as in the temple" of Neptune at Paestum and the temple of Aphaea at Aegina; there being only one groove in the Parthenon, the Theseum and later examples . In the temple of Ceres and the so-called Basilica at Paestum the hypotrachelium consists of a concave sinking carved with vertical lines suggestive of leaves, the tops of which project forward . A similar decoration is found in the capital of the columns flanking the tomb of Agamemnon at Mycenae, but here the hypotrachelium projects forward with a cavetto moulding, and is carved with triple leaves like the buds of a rose . In the Roman Doric Order the term was sometimes applied to that which is generally known as the " necking," the space between the fillet and the annulet .