Τα επίκρανα της Τεγέας

Abstract

A group of well known, but disregarded, architectural pieces from Tegea leads to a new suggestion of the Peloponnesian origin of the so-called sofa-capital. It is argued that the Greek pilaster-capital with the upright volutes a) had been definitely formed about 530 B.C. in the region between Amyklai and Tegea, under possible influence from the Ionian architecture of the Amyklaian 'throne', and b) had been constantly developed within the region of Peloponnese into the advanced Hellenistic period.