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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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ATTIC See also:BASE , the See also:term given in See also:architecture to the base of the See also:Roman Ionic See also:order, consisting of an upper and See also:lower See also:torus, separated by a See also:scotia (q.v.) and fillets. It was the favourite base of the See also:Romans, and was employed by them for columns of the Corinthian and Composite orders, and in See also:Byzantine and Romanesque See also:work would seem to have been generally adopted as a See also:model.

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