The correct answer is D. A leafy ornament
Step-by-step explanation:
In architecture, a column or pillar refers to an element that mainly supports other elements and keeps a structure by transmitting the weight of the elements above the column to those below. In Ancient Greece, columns had an important role as part of temples and because of this Greeks developed three different columns that are the Doric, Ionic and the Corinthian as explained in the image included in the case of the Corinthian columns were mainly elaborate and more elaborated than the Doric and the Ionic and besides this, the image explains the Corinthian columns had leafy ornaments at the top which other columns did not have as Ionic columns hat scrolls and Doric did not have any decoration. Considering this, it can be concluded the element that was at the top of Corinthian columns was a leafy ornament.