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)

PART II. DORIC SHAFT.—DENTILS, 39

Besides the Doric shaft", another member of
Greek architecture appears to have had its i*ise in
Egypt; at all events, it was there first used, in the
facade of the same early tombs of Beni Hassan;
this is the line of dentils beneath the cornice, at
the upper part of the architrave; in imitation of
the ends of the rafters of a flat-roofed house ;* for
though the tryglyphs covered the extremities of
the cross beams, and the sloping mutules the ends
of the sloping rafters of a pointed roof, the Ionic
dentils could only originate in a wooden house,
with a flat-roof. Canina supposes these square
" brackets" gave the idea of the guttse of Greek
monuments; though the only instance of the latter,
placed uninterruptedly, at equal distances, beneath
the upper member of the architrave throughout its
whole length, occurs in the choragic monument of
Thrasyllus at Athens, f

3. The third order of Egyptian column, with a
capital formed of the bud of the papyrus, origin-
ated, as already shewn % (like those of the fourth,
fifth, sixth, and eighth orders), in the devices first
painted, and afterwards sculptured in relief, upon
•the faces of the square pillar; and which, when
the pillar had been converted into a polygonal
column, no longer found room on its narrow
faceites.
• It has several varieties. It sometimes consists

the first who built a temple of that style at Argos, lived more than five
centuries after the Osirtasens.

* Vide Plate iii, fig. 1. t Sec. i, c. 2, p. 50.

t Vide supra, p. G; anil Plate iv, fig. 10.