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)

XXVI DESCRIPTION OF PLATES.

Fig-
columns in the plates xi, xn, xm, without attending
strictly to their consecutive arrangement; and the palm-
tree column, of the fifth order, has been placed in Plate xu,
because it accords in size with its companions of the
seventh order, from the same temple of Edfoo.

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1, 2, 3. Other columns of the composite or seventh order, from
the portico of Esn6, of Eoman time. There are many-
other columns, of the same order, in that and other
buildings j of which I have selected those that give the
best general notion of their character. It will be seen
that the capitals in Plate xiv, appear very large, and
heavy, for the size of the shaft; but this was not the
effect conveyed to the spectator; and their height, (which
remedied the apparent defect), required that the capital
should be large, in order to have a proper appearance
when seen from below. ( Vide p. 57.)

Pate XV.

Other columns of the seventh order, with fanciful capitals,
of the early time of Thothmes III, at Karnak. As they
are the result of a mere caprice, and belong to none of
the early orders, I have placed them in the composite.
(Vide p. 61.)

1. Shows their two varieties, and the breadth of the inter-

columniations.

2. A column, and the section of an outer pillar, with the

whimsical cornice, and the window above.

3. Elevation of the outer circuit of pillars, the entablature,

and windows above.

m^ XVh

1, 2. The eighth order, or the Osiride pillar.

1. Is from the area of the Memnonium, at Thebes, of
Kemeses II. These figures represent the king, in the
form of Osiris, signifying " good," or the divine " good-
ness". In his hand he holds the crook and flail, the