Papyrus was used as paper and the reed's shape inspired the fluted columns of ancient Greece.
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Papyrus was used as paper and the reed's shape inspired the fluted columns of ancient Greece.
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The cornice only is carried around the room at the ceiling, and in the staircase hall only the cymatium and corona of the cornice; but over the archway, supported by a colonnade of four fluted round columns, a complete entablature with nicely worked classic detail is employed and given added emphasis by several inches' projection into the reception hall.
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