Capital

(From Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput = head) the upper portion of a column, which mediates between the pillar and the load it carries. Capitals were often decorated in a very artistic manner.

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WHERE? In our store in Regensburg's Old Town.

We have been running a specialist store for facsimiles for over 10 years in Regensburg's Old Town, just opposite the "Schottenportal" of the Romanesque Scots Monastery of St. Jacob at Jakobstraße 6.