called " Alexandrian." Every single example in the Museum â€”
and there are many â€” which displays evidence of Greek
craftsmanship adheres to it. There are minor differences in
detail, as Fig. 230 will suffice to indicate ; and it is
possibly the most beautiful example of any, while it has the
further peculiarity of being applied partly to a fluted ii6 THE
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pilaster. In has been entitled here as " A Respond Capital" but
no more than a guess can be made as to the position it
originally occupied or even as to whether the building it
belonged to was trabeated or arcuated. It is of white marble. It
even does not seem improbable that the Romans obtained their
knowledge of the Corinthian capital rather from Alexandria than
direct from Greece, though the principal Roman example in
Alexandria hardly conforms to the type just described, except in
having leaf volutes at the angles instead of tendril volutes.
Pom- pey's Pillar (Fig. 229) which the example