Volute. 
Xystus. 
Zophorus. 
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vestibulum also means the portico in front of a Roman 
house. 
An ornament of the lonic capital, in form like a spiral. 
The introduction of volutes is said by Vitruvius to have 
arisen from an imitation of the mode in which women 
were formerly accustomed to ornament their hair. But 
they are thought, with greater probability, to have 
represented the horns of the Ammonian Jupiter. In early 
days the statues of the heathen deities were merely blocks; 
which, as the arts progressively advanced, were rounded 
into columns, and afterwards a representation of the human 
head was sculptured upon them; so that they resembled 
the termini of later ages. Small volutes occur in the 
capitals of Corinthian columns; they are said to be in 
imitation of the spiral tendrils in the stalk of the acanthus; 
which plant first suggested the introduction of leaves in 
the capitals of columns. 
See Paradromides. 
The centre of the three divisions of the entablature over 
lonic and Corinthian columns; having the epistylium 
below and the corona above it. The word is derived from 
the Greek %, which is compounded of g, an animal, 
and gégu, to bear: because the representation of animals 
and men were frequently sculptured in this member. With 
us it is termed frize. 
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