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)

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INDEX.

Doric shaft, and Egyptian fluted co-
lumn, 3, 38, 39

------column,45,46,andPreface,p. vii

-------and Ionic columns, in the Pro-

pylsea at Athens, 49

------ triglyphs over Ionic columns,

67 (note)

-------capital, probably from that of

the third Egyptian order, 45 (vide
description of plate I, fig. 6 a)
Draughts, game of, 23, and note
Drawing, excellence of Egyptian, 28
Dromos, or avenue of sphinxes, 74,90
Drums of columns not whole, 44
Dynasties of kings contemporaneous,

131
Dynasty, eighteenth, 132

EARLY HOUSES of Egypt made of

mud (vide houses), 5
Edfoo, 52 and note, 56, 58, 60, 65
Egyptians preceded other people in

civilization, 14

-------used large stones, 107

Egyptian columns and square pillars

(vide columns and pillars), 6,32

------- temples at first small, 72, 106,

107

------column, origin of the round and

polygonal, 6, 7

-------with the bud and other capitals,

origin of the, 8

-------03CUS, mentioned by Vitruvius,

21

-------taste in architecture and sculp-
ture, 23

—— buildings covered with coloured
hieroglyphics and sculptures, 45

-------tombs, 108

Eilethyas, 35, 36, 55, 80

Emanations, 117

Emplecton, in brickwork and ma-
sonry, 97

Entablature, 66

Entasis, or swell of columns, 42

Error respecting obelisks, 104

-------the temples built under the Pto-
lemies and Romans, 54

------Greek innovations, 30, 54

------- the Egyptians beginning with

large buildings, and the use of
large and small architraves in
Egypt and Greece, 106,107

Esne, 65, 84, 87, 102

Ethiopians, 4, 71, 133,135,136, 139

Etruscan walls, 11, 12, 13 (note)

Etruscan intercolumniations and ar-
chitecture, 65, and note

------ tombs, 4 (note), H2

Etruscans, 19, 112

Evil and good, brothers, 124

-------afterwards confounded with sin,

124,127

Excavated monuments (vide rock-
temples and tombs), 5,91

------sanctuary at Saboon, in Nubia,

92

Eye, the judge of the effect of a build-
ing, 51

FACES, or heads on columns (vide

Isis and Athor)
Pacettes (or central faces) of columns,

36,37
Fasces, Roman, 66 (note)
Ferayg, temple, in Nubia, 92
Fluted columns, at Karnak and Beni

Hassan, of very early time, 38,80
Flutes of columns, 34, 35, 38

------with fillets, 35

Flutes of Doric and Ionic columns,

37 (note)
Foreign kings of Egypt, 122
Fortresses of the Egyptians, 77,139
Frieze, not in Egyptian architecture,

66
Full-blown lotus and papyrus, capitals

(vide lotus and papyrus)
Funeral processions to the tombs, 111

GAME of draughts, 23, and note
Gate of lions at Mycenae, 11 (note),

16 (note)
Gateway, or pylon, 73, 90
Gebel-Berkel, in Ethiopia, 62 (note),

71,106

------, pointed arch at, 71

Gerf Hossayn (Jerf Hossayn), or

Girsheh, in Nubia, 63 (note), 92
Gilding of architectural details, 99
Globe (vide winged)
God (vide deity)
Gods of various parts of Egypt, 128

------the same in the earliest times,121

Good and evil, brothers (vide evil)
Gothic architecture, variety in, 102

------- churches, 64

Gow, 52 (note)
Granite, columns of, 44

------, early use of, in Egypt, 9

------used for what purposes, 44, 95,

96