Ancient Greek temple three steps, the "crepidoma". The uppermost level of the "crepidoma" provides the surface on which the columns and walls are placed; it is called stylobate. Placed on the stylobate are the vertical column shafts, tapering towards the top. They are normally made of several separately cut column drums. Depending on the architectural order, a different number of flutings are cut into the column shaft: Doric columns have 18 to 20 flutings, Ionic and Corinthian ones normally have 24. Early Ionic columns had up to 48 flutings. While Doric columns stand directly on the stylobate, Ionic and Corinthian ones possess a
Doric Greek "ka" ~ Attic–Ionic "an". Temporal adverbs in "-ka" ~ Attic–Ionic "-te". Locative adverbs in "-ei" ~ Attic/Koine "-ou". The aorist and future of verbs in "-izō", "-azō" has "x" (versus Attic/Koine "s"). Similarly "k" before suffixes beginning with "t". Argive Cretan Laconian Magna Graecian Doric Aetolian-Acarnanian Delphic-Locrian Elean Epirotic Doric Greek Doric, or Dorian, was an Ancient Greek dialect. Its variants were spoken in the southern and eastern Peloponnese as well as in Sicily, Epirus, Southern Italy, Crete, Rhodes, some islands in the southern Aegean Sea and some cities on the south east coast of Anatolia. Together with Northwest Greek,