capital

(noun)

The topmost part of a column.

Related Terms

  • crypt
  • crossing
  • elevation
  • vault
  • apse
  • pithoi
  • ocular window
  • Piers
  • peripteral
  • geometric period
  • blind arcade
  • ambulatory
  • nave
  • lamassu
  • fluted
  • immortal
  • hypostyle
  • Pericles
  • frieze
  • anta
  • entablature
  • prostyle
  • base
  • labyrinth
  • fresco
  • cella

(noun)

The uppermost part of a column.

Related Terms

  • crypt
  • crossing
  • elevation
  • vault
  • apse
  • pithoi
  • ocular window
  • Piers
  • peripteral
  • geometric period
  • blind arcade
  • ambulatory
  • nave
  • lamassu
  • fluted
  • immortal
  • hypostyle
  • Pericles
  • frieze
  • anta
  • entablature
  • prostyle
  • base
  • labyrinth
  • fresco
  • cella

Examples of capital in the following topics:

  • Dur Sharrukin

    • Dur-Sharrukin, present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of King Sargon II.
    • Dur-Sharrukin, or present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of King Sargon II.
    • After his death, his son and successor Sennacherib abandoned the project and relocated the capital with its administration to the city of Nineveh.
  • Romanesque Architecture: The Church of Saint-Lazare

    • The column capitals and main façade of the church are embellished with realistic sculptures carved by Gislebertus, and the artwork is a means of teaching the masses of Christian ethics with dramatic scenes of heaven and hell.
    • The interior of the cathedral has a nave and two aisles, divided by massive columns with longitudinal carvings punctuated with decorated Romanesque capitals.
    • Many of the historiated capitals that adorn the columns in Saint-Lazare were carved by Gislebertus.
    • Specifically, Gislebertus created capitals that used the tendrils of the actual Corinthian capital to create an architectural frame for the narrative of the story to develop.
    • These portal capitals are carved with biblical and traditional scenes.
  • The Assyrian Culture

    • The Assyrian king Shalmaneser I made Nimrud, which existed for about a thousand years, the capital in the thirteenth century BCE.
    • Nimrud remained the Assyrian capital until 706 BCE when Sargon II moved the capital to Dur-Sharrukin, but it remained a major center and a royal residence until the city was completely destroyed in 612 BCE when Assyria succumbed under the invasion of the Medes.
    • Dur-Sharrukin, or present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of King Sargon II.
    • Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
    • Describe the key aspects of the Assyrian capitals of Nimrud, Dur-Sharrukin, and Nineveh
  • Babylon

    • Babylon controlled little surrounding territory until it became the capital of Hammurabi's empire a century later .
    • Subsequently, the city of Babylon continued to be the capital of the region known as Babylonia.
    • Babylon thus became the capital of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
    • Although excavations are thought to reveal its foundations, many historians disagree about the location, and some believe it may have been confused with gardens in the Assyrian capital, Nineveh.
    • The city was the administrative capital of the Persian Empire, the preeminent power of the then-known world, and it played a vital part in the history of that region for over two centuries.
  • Architecture in the Hellenistic Period

    • Examples include slender and unfluted Doric columns and four-fronted capitals on Ionic columns, the latter of which helped to solve design problems concerning symmetry on temple porticos.
    • On second level Ionic columns lined the exterior, and columns with a simple, stylized capital lined the interior.
    • The capital consists of a double layer of acanthus leaves and stylized plant tendrils that curl up towards the abacus in the shape of a scroll or volute.
    • Corinthian Capital.
  • Akkad

    • Akkad was the capital of the Akkadian Empire, which was the dominant political force in Mesopotamia.
    • Akkad was the capital of the Akkadian Empire, which was the dominant political force in Mesopotamia at the end of the third millennium BCE .
  • Cloth Production in Bamum

    • The Mbum, a part-Bantu ethnic group from northeast Cameroon, founded the kingdom at the end of the 14th century; its capital was the ancient walled city of Fumban.
    • France integrated the economy of Cameroun with that of France and improved the infrastructure with capital investments, skilled workers, and continued forced labor.
    • The Bamum developed an extensive artistic culture at their capital of Fumban at the beginning of the 20th century.
  • Architecture of the Aztecs

    • Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital city from 1325-1521, is one of the most magnificent architectural accomplishments of the Aztec empire.
    • Their capital was Tenochtitlan on the shore of Lake Texcoco, the site of modern-day Mexico City.
    • Tenochtitlan was the capital city of the expanding Aztec empire during the 15th century.
    • The power of Tenochtitlan was maintained by tributes paid by conquered lands and the capital grew in influence, size, and population.
    • In 1521, the Spanish conquered Tenochtitlan, and Cortés directed the systematic destruction of the city and the rebuilding of the capital of New Spain atop its ruins.
  • Moche

    • From 100 CE to 800 CE, Moche civilization flourished in northern Peru with its capital, Huacas del Sol y de la Luna, being located near present-day Trujillo .
    • Huaca del Sol, "Temple of the Sun", was the Mochica political capital.
  • Nineveh

    • Nineveh, an Assyrian city on the Tigris River and capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, was one of the earliest, greatest cities in antiquity.
    • Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
    • Thus, it became one of the oldest and greatest of all the region's ancient cities, and the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
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