Wilkinson, John Gardner: The Architecture Of Ancient Egypt: In Which The Columns Are Arranged In Orders, And The Temples Classified; With Remarks On The Early Progress Of Architecture, Etc.; With A Large Volume Of Plates Ilustrative Of The Subject, And Containing The Various Columns And details, From Actual Measurement (Text) (London, 1850)

VI PREFACE.

terfered with the evident connexion between
those of the fourth, and other round-shafted
columns. On the other hand, the sixth has
its place before the composite columns, be-
cause of the early use of the Isis-head, which
is found on pilasters of an old Pharaonic
age;* and it is also entitled to the position
I have given it, among the round-shafted
columns.

It always appears singular that the Egyp-
tians, who in early times used the polygonal
and round fluted, column, should have devised
others of so very different a character, as the
round unfluted ones, of the third, and other
orders; but the manner in which they were
led to their invention is sufficiently obvious.
Egyptian,,like all other ancient, architecture,
was always coloured; and the columns, as
well as walls, were ornamented with devices
painted upon them. These, in process of
time, were sculptured in relievo; and the
lotus, and papyrus plants, in bud, or in full
blossom, the palm-tree, and the figure of
Osiris, were represented in high, or low,
relief, on the four sides of the square pillar.

* The remains of the original ornamented square pillars.