Description

The column or column is of circular cross-section, upright element, monolithic or consisting of stone parts in the shape of cylindrical drums and is used in architecture and in general in construction (building) as a pillar. It usually consists of the base, the trunk and the capital (in Ionian architecture), while the base is absent from the Doric columns. The two plus a well-known rhythms of ancient Greek architecture and rhythmology [3], the Doric, the Ionian and the Corinthian (it is a special case of the Doric with application in burial monuments), were determined by the structure of the column, from the base to the capital , together with the entablature which he supports. All the important cultures of the Iron Age of the Near East and the Mediterranean used columns.