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. XXVU

Fig.

two sceptres of the god; and his square beard is indi-
cative of the divine character of the figure, that of the
king in his human character having the point curved
upwards.

2. Is from the area of the temple of Sabooa, in Nubia. The

lower part is not measured, being buried in the sand.

3. Shows the shape of the capital of the fourth order, in the

time of Remeses HI, when it was deprived of its regula.
(Vide also Plate iv, figs. 15, 16, and text, pp. 46, 48,67.)
The lowness of the cornice, compared to that of Ptolemaic
time in fig. 5, and the triglyph ornament upon the
cornice, may also be seen. (Vide p. 68.) On the right
side is the Egyptian pilaster, with its capital; and the
slope of the pyramidal tower, against which it stands, at
the end of the outer area of Medeenet Haboo. (Vide p. 64.)

4. Also shows the lowness of the ancient Egyptian cornice, and

the form which the corner of an entablature would have
over a colonnade.

5. Exemplifies the greater height of the cornice in Ptolemaic

buildings; and the custom of making the capital of the
fourth order without a regula, continued from the time
of Remeses III. (Vide supra, on fig. 3.)

Pate XTO.

1. A section of the window, and architrave, over the great

colonnade at Karnak. (Vide Plate x.)

2. a, b. An elevation, and section, of a window, at the smaller

temple of Medeenet Haboo, drawn to four times the
usual scale. (Vide p. 93.)

3. A window of Ptolemaic time, at Thebes. (Vide p. 93.)

4. The same, increased to four times that scale.

Pate Xrafi.

1. The pavilion of King Remeses III, at Medeenet Haboo;
through which the road led to the dromos of the temple,
from the usual canopy, that stood a short distance before
it. Parts of the upper portion, of the sides of this