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See also: term in architecture given to the neck of the capital of the Doric and Ionic orders
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In the See also: Greek Doric capital it is the space between the annulets of the echinus and the grooves which marked the junction of the See also: shaft and capital; in some early examples, as in the See also: basilica and See also: temple of See also: Ceres at See also: Paestum and the temple at Metapontum, it forms a sunk See also: concave moulding, which by the French. is called the See also: gorge
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In the See also: Roman Doric and the Iodic orders the term is given by See also: modern writers to the See also: interval between the lowest moulding of the capital and the top of the astragal and fillet, which were termed the " hypotrachelium " (q.v.)
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