Question

While traveling in Greece, you see columns of all different orders. You examine each one carefully. You see one with a capital, which consists of a rounded echinus at the top joined to a square called the abacus. There are 20 grooves around the column. The column lacks a base and stands directly on the floor below it. Which order do you infer you are observing?(1 point)
Responses

Ionic
Ionic

Sumerian
Sumerian

Doric
Doric

Corinthian

Answer 1

Doric

The description—rounded echinus with a square abacus, about 20 flutes, and no base (column rests directly on the stylobate)—matches the Greek Doric order.