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Fig.
DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. XX111
Pat* vm.
The largest specimens of the third variety of this third
order; from the lateral colonnades of the great hall of
Karnak. The different heights of the shafts are shown,
and the breadth of the different intercolumniations.
Above the entablature are the windows, that light the
centre of the hall. ( Vide also plate xvii.) Below is the
plan of a part of the colonnades, to a different measure,
—one quarter of the usual scale of these, and other
columns. ( Vide p. 43-65.)
Slate X.
The fourth order of columns; which, being introduced in
the same sheet, with those of Plate vm, show how they
stand in relation to the lateral colonnades of the temple.
These, which are the largest specimen of the fourth
order, are in the great hall of Karnak, of the time of
Osirei I, and his son, Kemeses II. Some idea may be
formed of their immense height, from the man introduced
between them, and from those in the other plates being
all drawn to the same scale. Their dimensions are—
from the ground to the top of capital, 65 feet 5 inches;
from the ground to the architrave, 69 feet 5 inches ;
from the ground to the roof, 79 feet 3 inches ; greatest
diameter of the shaft, 11 feet 8| inches. (Vide p. 49.)
This order of column was probably invented about the
same time as the third; having originated in like manner
from the plant, painted or sculptured, upon the square
pillar ; though it appears to have been less commonly
used at an early period, than that with the bud capital.
I have said (in p. 67) that the curving cornice was de-
rived from it, and that this was not so generally em-
ployed over doorways, and other parts of buildings, as in
after times ; but there is evidence of its having been
placed at the summit of stela: of the 12th Dynasty; and
it appears even to have been introduced in small objects
of that kind, in the age of King Papi ; and shrines, and
tables for offerings, were made with a very similar sum-
DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. XX111
Pat* vm.
The largest specimens of the third variety of this third
order; from the lateral colonnades of the great hall of
Karnak. The different heights of the shafts are shown,
and the breadth of the different intercolumniations.
Above the entablature are the windows, that light the
centre of the hall. ( Vide also plate xvii.) Below is the
plan of a part of the colonnades, to a different measure,
—one quarter of the usual scale of these, and other
columns. ( Vide p. 43-65.)
Slate X.
The fourth order of columns; which, being introduced in
the same sheet, with those of Plate vm, show how they
stand in relation to the lateral colonnades of the temple.
These, which are the largest specimen of the fourth
order, are in the great hall of Karnak, of the time of
Osirei I, and his son, Kemeses II. Some idea may be
formed of their immense height, from the man introduced
between them, and from those in the other plates being
all drawn to the same scale. Their dimensions are—
from the ground to the top of capital, 65 feet 5 inches;
from the ground to the architrave, 69 feet 5 inches ;
from the ground to the roof, 79 feet 3 inches ; greatest
diameter of the shaft, 11 feet 8| inches. (Vide p. 49.)
This order of column was probably invented about the
same time as the third; having originated in like manner
from the plant, painted or sculptured, upon the square
pillar ; though it appears to have been less commonly
used at an early period, than that with the bud capital.
I have said (in p. 67) that the curving cornice was de-
rived from it, and that this was not so generally em-
ployed over doorways, and other parts of buildings, as in
after times ; but there is evidence of its having been
placed at the summit of stela: of the 12th Dynasty; and
it appears even to have been introduced in small objects
of that kind, in the age of King Papi ; and shrines, and
tables for offerings, were made with a very similar sum-