As other studies have shown, (16) variations are abundant among genuinely Archaic capitals, but with the elimination of capital C there is reason to doubt whether such a simple design, devoid of both a groove at the top of the echinus and annulets (or other decorative zone) at the bottom of the echinus, ever existed among monumental Doric capitals.
60) did not give a specific date for capital C, but he clearly regarded it as early and suggested that the capital's lack of annulets reflected a pre-monumental form of capital that also gave rise to the Tuscan capital.
288) notes both the lack of a groove at the top of the echinus and the lack of annulets or other type of decorative zone at the base of the echinus see above, n.
