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Notes:

In Archaeology 101, we learn that flutings were the shallow grooves running vertically along a vertical surface and that Doric columns usually had 20 such flutes. We can see from this photograph that the columns on the northern long side and on the remaining three sides of the Segesta temple were never fluted--an indication that some of the finishing touches had never been applied to the temple. Note also the slight tilt of the columns.