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=== Ionic order === {{Main|Ionic order}} The Ionic order came from eastern Greece, where its origins are entwined with the similar but little known [[Aeolic order]]. It is distinguished by slender, fluted [[column|pillar]]s with a large base and two opposed [[volute]]s (also called "scrolls") in the echinus of the capital. The echinus itself is decorated with an [[egg-and-dart]] [[Motif (visual arts)|motif]]. The Ionic shaft comes with four more flutes than the Doric counterpart (totalling 24). The Ionic base has two convex moldings called ''tori'', which are separated by a scotia. The Ionic order is also marked by an [[entasis]], a curved tapering in the column shaft. A column of the Ionic order is nine times more tall than its lower diameter. The shaft itself is eight diameters high. The architrave of the entablature commonly consists of three stepped bands (''fasciae''). The frieze comes without the Doric triglyph and metope. The frieze sometimes comes with a continuous ornament such as carved figures instead.[[File:The Pantheon, Rome (14995115321).jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.8|Corinthian capital of a column from the interior of the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]] in [[Rome]]]]
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