Corinthian polilobated capital

Corinthian capital decorated by eight simplified acanthus leaves of polilobated shape and angular section, with bulging ribs and lateral lobes clinging to the kalathos; the piece shows an inverted arrangement of the foliage, having the corner leaves stemming from behind the central ones, which are instead placed on the foreground and linked to each other at the base by means of their lateral lobes. The central leaves have a highly rounded summit with a strongly bent, bulging globular tip, decorated by little fleshy points; the leaves at the corners end in a small coil, resulting from the severe reduction of the volutes’ strip. The surface of the kalathos is plain with a thin projecting rim.

The plain abacus is devoid of its mouldings.

For its stylistic characteristics the capital can be chronologically set in the medieval period, since some of its decorative elements, such as the leaves ending in bulging, rounded crochets with polilobated points centrally marked, can be found in exemplars from Cistercian abbeys (middle of the XII century).