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Diocletian's Mausoleum
293-305 A.D. Split, Croatia Diocletian built a fortified palace for his 305 A.D. retirement. Around 700 A.D., it became the nucleus of an entire town, which is now the city of Split. This is a capital of the colonnade around the outside of his mausoleum.
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| Photo published in 1912 (Wiki) This capital was designed by eastern architects. Notice the small size of the overhanging parts of the acanthus. There is no third row of acanthus under the volutes, and the flower at the top of the capital has become two leaves, the standard model seen later in Constantinople. (Compare this to a contemporary western capital in the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine.) | |||
