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Kо̄kanâya

The columns are generally a bizarre
treatment of the Ionic order
alternating with stiff Corinthian.

The doorways opening upon the colonnade
are provided with simply moulded lintels
embellished with symbols and ornamented
discs. The buildings themselves are
often not over fifteen feet in depth, are
built of quadrated blocks and are
preserved in only a few instances, their
well cut stones offering the greatest
temptation to the builders of the middle age
and of modern times. The lower story is usually
divided into square compartments each
with its own opening upon the colonnade.

One of these buildings measured was over
fifty feet long with seven openings each 5ft 7.

Domestic architecture. The domestic architecture is broadly
^ speaking ^ of two styles, the large quadrated
with decorated lintels only and a style
which was essentially the same as that of