Ionic column capital from the second temple of Athena at Sounion. About 460-450 BCE.

With traces of their painted decoration: anthemia at the corners of the volutes, a painted egg-and-dart moulding at the echinus, a double meander and a scaled pattern.
Exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece.

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Architecture Athens Attica Color and Polychromy Floral Ionic Marble National Archaeological Museum Original Photo