The Vitruvian scroll is a

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pattern used in architectural moldings and borders in other media. It is also known as the Vitruvian wave, wave scroll, or running dog pattern. The pattern resembles waves in water or a series of parchment

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viewed on end. "Vitruvian" refers to the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ("Vitruvius"), who wrote the oldest extant book on architecture, which describes some of the classical architectural orders.

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Vitruvian scrolls under the lip of the Vix Krater, 530 BC, bronze, Musée du Pays Châtillonnais, Châtillon-sur-Seine, France File:Châtillon-sur-Seine (21) Musée du Pays Châtillonnais - Cratère de Vix - 03.jpg, Ancient Greek Vitruvian scrolls on the handle of the Vix Krater File:Canthare janiforme 02.JPG,

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Vitruvian scrolls at the top of a kantharos, 2nd half of the 4th century BC, terracotta,

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Vitruvian scrolls on a mosaic (only the bottom border survived), 2nd-4th centuries, mosaic,

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, US File:Daphné, racemi a volute popolati di animali, IV sec. 02.JPG, Roman Vitruvian scrolls on a mosaic with animals, 4th century AD, mosaic,

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door with Vitruvian scrolls

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s of the

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, Paris, by

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vase with a

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, swans and Vitruvian scrolls, by Jean-Baptiste-Étienne Genest and the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, designed in 1766, produced in 1767, soft-paste porcelain, Louvre File:26 Bulevardul Hristo Botev, Bucharest (03).jpg,

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window grill with stylized Vitruvian scrolls in Bulevardul Hristo Botev no. 26,

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, unknown architect, 1930 File:Vitruvian_Scroll.jpg, Vitruvian scroll on a building of a typical style for the late 19th to early 20th-century

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on the

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, combining neoclassical influences such as the Vitruvian scroll patterns often seen in

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and

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. Built in Popovo,

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