Acanthus foliations

The calathos of the capital is covered with a single row of foliations. The leaves are overlapped in a complex way with acanthus elements, in a similar way as in capital W02MS58. The central acanthus spine under the console block represents the middle axis. Round it whole and half leaves are overlapped; they are either interlocked or nestle against each other. They cover over in part the elongated arms of the volutes, whose parallel grooves are less pronounced than on capital W02MS58.
A double row of fish-scale pattern runs round the top of the impost block. In the corners and centre of the bevelled impost frieze, roundels formed by branching and interlaced tendrils whose curling terminals enclose round, markedly three-dimensional fruits emerge from animal heads. The animal heads have been systematically destroyed, but can in part still be recognized, for instance by the surviving ears. This is so on the north and south sides, where small heads sat in the roundels instead of fruits; but of these only the tips of their ears remain.

pattern scale animal head fish