Hypotrachelion

Hypotrachelion ( neuter , from Greek  ὑπό , hypó under, under and ὁ τράχηλος , tráchelos the neck ) is the Greek name for the column neck of Doric columns , which lies below the neck constriction of the column shaft at the transition to the capital . It is the part of the Doric column that mediates between the ring-shaped notches at the upper end of the column shaft and the actual capital cushion, the Echinus . These notches on the shaft of the column, which could only have been painted, were often referred to as scamillus in the past , but can be better referred to as hypotracheal bands.

The hypotrachelion is always incorporated into the capital as a workpiece and, like the shaft of the column, fluted . In the early period of the Doric order, at the beginning of the 6th century BC. BC, the zone that closed off the Hypotrachelion and mediated the capital approach had leaf-decorated rings made of bronze - for example on the Temple of Artemis in Corfu - or overhanging leaf ornaments worked into the stone - for example on the older Poro temple of Aphaia on Aegina , around the abrupt transition from the column shaft to mitigate Echinus. As a result, however, this emphasis on the transition disappears, and with an increasingly linear tapering of the column shafts with simultaneously tighter capital cushions, there is also no need for a concave and decorated transition between the shaft, which is slightly ' convex ' due to its entasis, and the protruding capital to create between column and capital.

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