<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:502px;"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allahabad_capital_abacus_motif.jpg" class="image"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Allahabad_capital_abacus_motif.jpg/500px-Allahabad_capital_abacus_motif.jpg" decoding="async" width="500" height="202" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Allahabad_capital_abacus_motif.jpg/750px-Allahabad_capital_abacus_motif.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Allahabad_capital_abacus_motif.jpg/1000px-Allahabad_capital_abacus_motif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1890" data-file-height="765"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allahabad_capital_abacus_motif.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Photograph of the abacus</div></div></div>Frieze of capital of Lat at Allahabad, with flame palmette within multiple calyx lotuses.<br>For a modern photograph (original abacus on a modern base) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ancient.eu/image/5823/">here</a><br><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frieze_from_Delphi_lotus_with_multiple_calyx.jpg" class="image"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Frieze_from_Delphi_lotus_with_multiple_calyx.jpg/220px-Frieze_from_Delphi_lotus_with_multiple_calyx.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="115" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Frieze_from_Delphi_lotus_with_multiple_calyx.jpg/330px-Frieze_from_Delphi_lotus_with_multiple_calyx.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Frieze_from_Delphi_lotus_with_multiple_calyx.jpg/440px-Frieze_from_Delphi_lotus_with_multiple_calyx.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2424" data-file-height="1272"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frieze_from_Delphi_lotus_with_multiple_calyx.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Similarities with a frieze from <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Delphi" title="Delphi">Delphi</a> featuring lotus with multiple calyx.</div></div></div><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Didyma_palmette_and_lotus_frieze.jpg" class="image"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Didyma_palmette_and_lotus_frieze.jpg/300px-Didyma_palmette_and_lotus_frieze.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="93" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Didyma_palmette_and_lotus_frieze.jpg/450px-Didyma_palmette_and_lotus_frieze.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Didyma_palmette_and_lotus_frieze.jpg/600px-Didyma_palmette_and_lotus_frieze.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1368" data-file-height="423"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Didyma_palmette_and_lotus_frieze.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Frieze at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didyma" class="extiw" title="en:Didyma">Didyma</a>.</div></div></div>
John Murray, 1876
2018-04-24
Illustration for History of Indian and Eastern Architecture by James Fergusson (John Murray, 1876).