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)

DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. XXV

Fig.

pate X«.

1, 2. The palm-tree column, or the fifth order. These two
show how different the size may be of columns of the
same order. They are both of the Ptolemaic time, from
Edfoo, and Philee. The shaft comes straight down to the
plinth, which, in fig. 2, has its upper edge chamfered, or
bevelled off.

b, b. Are horizontal sections of the top of the capitals.

3, 4. Varieties of the composite columns, of the seventh order,
also of Ptolemaic time, from Edfoo. (Vide p. 58.)

5. Shows the state in which the capitals of some composite
columns were first put up, being afterwards cut into the
form required.

Pate Xffl.

1. The Isis, or Athor-headed column, of the sixth order; from

the portico of Dendera. The base consists of a round
plinth, upon a low square one; and the shaft runs down
straight to the plinth, as in other columns of the
Ptolemaic time; though instances occur of the same in
early columns, as in Plate v. ( Vide p. 53.)

2. In the inner hall of Dendera, combines the composite capital,

of the seventh order, with that of the Isis-headed column.
I was unable to measure the part above the composite
capital. The rest of this, and all the other columns in
this work, are drawn from actual measurements, taken by
me, except part of fig. 8 in Plate iv; fig. 3 in Plate xi;
part of fig. 2 in Plate xvi ; and the lower part of fig. 3 in
this plate, which is buried. This last, fig. 3, is in the
peristyle of the Mammeisi, at Dendera. {Vide p. 56.)
At the side is a horizontal section of the capital, and its
dado, which is instead of an abacus. Fig. 4, also unites
the capitals of the sixth, and seventh orders. It is of
Ptolemaic time, from Philse; and fig. 5 gives the lotus
capital, with the Isis-head, on a larger scale. ( Vide pp.
55-60.) These transitions, or combinations, of various
orders, have obliged me to introduce several different

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