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)

56 ARCHITECTURE OF EGYPT. PART .11.

pies of Ptolemaic, and Roman, time; and at Philae
whole corridors are composed of various columns,
of the seventh order, surmounted by them. Some-
times an Isis-head column is introduced at each
side of the doorways, of the hypsethral buildings* of
the dromos, (whence the grand processions took
place, to the temples to which they belonged) ;f the
rest of the columns being of the seventh order.
They are also found on each side of the doorways,
of porticoes in antis; as at Philse, Contra-Latopolis,
and other places. Among the columns, of the cor-
ridors, at Philse, are some with the full-blown lotus
capital, (which sufficiently show the impropriety of
applying the name to those of the fourth order)% ;
they are of small dimensions, 13 ft. 3 in. being the
height of the shaft and capital; and their total
height, with the plinth, is 17ft. 5§ in.§ Their dia-
meter is 2 ft. 8 in. But these dimensions, as in
other cases, might be increased ; according to the
size of the edifice, to which they belonged.

Another kind of column, which has a composite
capital, supporting a square dado, with a Typhonian
monster on each side of it in relief, may also be
classed in this order. It is chiefly found in the
peristyles of the Mammeisi, attached to the great
temples;—small buildings, in which the second per-
son of the local triad was represented to have given
birth to the third;—as at Dendera,Edfoo,and other
places.|| This dado, at Dendera, is 3 ft. b\ in. high,

* As at Gertasseh in Nubia.

t Vide infra, on the hypaethial buildings.

t Vide supra, p. 47. § They have no abacus.

|| Vide Ancient Egyptians, vol. iv, pp. 431, 432.