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)

PBEFACE. Vll

This continued, for some time, to be the
mode of decorating the pillar; while its com-
panion, (which had also grown out of it),
the polygonal, or fluted, column, having now
no room for the painted devices, was satisfied
with a line of hieroglyphics down its central
facette. But the love of variety, and progress
of taste, were not long before they made
another change; and the superfluous corners,
beyond the devices, that projected in relief
from the flat surface of the square pillar, were
cut away, and the plants on the four sides
were either represented bound together, or
were made into a single stem (as in the case
of the papyrus plant, and the palm-tree, and
in some of the later varieties of the bud-
column) .* Hence arose the notion of binding
the fourf plants together; and though the
bands were afterwards continued, when the
shaft was single, the origin of the idea is
evident; and there is reason to believe, that
the Greeks borrowed the annuli of the Doric
column from this Egyptian ornament, there
being nothing to bind in a Doric shaft.
The general character of the eight orders

* Vide Plate iv, fig. 10. f Often increased to eight. Vide Plate vi.