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Column (Pillar shaft or solid body)

a pillar, shaft, or solid body of considerably greater length than thickness, standing upright, and generally serving to support some superincumbent mass. It is the principal part in the ancient orders of architecture. There are five orders of architecture, each having CORINTHIAN COLUMN respects differs from the Roman Doric, which is an imitation of it. It was short, powerful, and massive, and very simple COLUMN in character. Its height was between seven and eight diameters. The Ionic column was distinguished by its volutes, and was nine diameters in height. The Co- COLUMN of a column are the plinth, the torus, the shaft, the astragal, the neck, the ovato, the abacus. Above these rose the entablature. 709 ع TUSCAN COLUMN rinthian, which was 10 diameters high, was adorned with leaves, etc., and was noted for its lightness and richness of decoration. Of these the Doric and Ionic were the earliest and oftenest employed in Greek architecture. The Corinthian was preferred by the Romans. The parts DORIC COLUMN