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XXIV DESCRIPTION OF PLATES.
Fig.
mit, as early as the 6th and 4th dynasties. The device,
then, must have been used at that time, even if the
pillar had not yet been cut into the isolated form of the
papyrus column itself ; and it may have been employed
for stela?, and other ornamental purposes, before it became
the established cornice of an Egyptian temple.
Pate iX.
Other columns of the fourth order. The shaft, as usual,
curved at the lower end.
1. From the central colonnade of the hall of assembly, in the
Memnonium. The difference of the effect of columns,
to the eye in a building, and when laid down to measure-
ment on paper, is here seen in figs. 1 and 3. The upper
part of the shaft below the capital, owing to its height,
necessarily looks much smaller than it really is, as the
lines recede from the eye ; and the capital, from present-
ing the under portion of its curving rim, has a totally
different appearance from an elevation; for it is never so
presented to the spectator, who is always much below it.
(Vide p. 50.)
2. The columns of the lateral colonnade of the same hall, of
the third order, with one of the windows above the
entablatures.
Slate Xh
Composite columns of the seventh order.
1,2, 3. From the portico of Phihe, of Ptolemaic time. As they
are evidently derived from those of the fourth order,
they may very properly follow them, though the palm-
tree column precedes them in antiquity.
2. b. Shews the difference in the effect of the capital, as seen
by the spectator, and laid down to a scale. (Vide p. 57.)
3. The details of this capital are not measured, but only laid
down according to the proportions of the other columns.
4. Pilasters at the entrance to the tomb of Remeses III, at
Thebes, which may properly be included in the sixth
order. ( Vide p. 57.)
Fig.
mit, as early as the 6th and 4th dynasties. The device,
then, must have been used at that time, even if the
pillar had not yet been cut into the isolated form of the
papyrus column itself ; and it may have been employed
for stela?, and other ornamental purposes, before it became
the established cornice of an Egyptian temple.
Pate iX.
Other columns of the fourth order. The shaft, as usual,
curved at the lower end.
1. From the central colonnade of the hall of assembly, in the
Memnonium. The difference of the effect of columns,
to the eye in a building, and when laid down to measure-
ment on paper, is here seen in figs. 1 and 3. The upper
part of the shaft below the capital, owing to its height,
necessarily looks much smaller than it really is, as the
lines recede from the eye ; and the capital, from present-
ing the under portion of its curving rim, has a totally
different appearance from an elevation; for it is never so
presented to the spectator, who is always much below it.
(Vide p. 50.)
2. The columns of the lateral colonnade of the same hall, of
the third order, with one of the windows above the
entablatures.
Slate Xh
Composite columns of the seventh order.
1,2, 3. From the portico of Phihe, of Ptolemaic time. As they
are evidently derived from those of the fourth order,
they may very properly follow them, though the palm-
tree column precedes them in antiquity.
2. b. Shews the difference in the effect of the capital, as seen
by the spectator, and laid down to a scale. (Vide p. 57.)
3. The details of this capital are not measured, but only laid
down according to the proportions of the other columns.
4. Pilasters at the entrance to the tomb of Remeses III, at
Thebes, which may properly be included in the sixth
order. ( Vide p. 57.)