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)

INDEX.

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Osirei I, or Sethos (Sethi), 17, 24,
40, 96 (note), 132

Osiride pillars, 34, 62, 63, 82, 89, 92

------the origin of Caryatides, 62

-------on one side of a court, and co-
lumns on the other, 61,102

-------support architraves; but the fi-
gures themselves support no-
thing, 63

Osiris (rafeSeth), 119,120, 121, 124,
125, 126,127

Osirtasen I, 38, 70, 131

Osirtasens, the, 24,30,36,41,46,131

PAINTING in Egypt, long before it

was known in Greece, 8

------preceded sculpture, 7

------, invention of, 8

------in oil, 98 (note)

Palm-tree column, of the 8th order,

8, 51, 52
------column preferred in Lower

Egypt, 53

-.------columnsinthetombofAmasis,53

------beams used for roofing houses, 5

Pantheism, 119

Pantheon of Egypt, 129

Papi, king, 68 (note), 75 (note), 121

Papyrus plant, 39, 47

-------plant not now in Egypt, 47

-------, capital in the form of the, 46,

47,61
Pavilion of King Kemeses III, at

Thebes, 22
Pediment, architrave in form of a, 41
-------not a feature of Egyptian archi-
tecture, 69
Pelasgi, a conventional name, 12

(note), and Appendix A.

------works of the, 12 (note), 17 (note)

Pelasgic towns, style of building in

the, 12
Peripteral buildings (vide Temples),

73, 79, 80, 81, 82
Peristyles, 81
Persians, 20, 134
Pharaoh, or Phra "the sun," 115
Pharaonic monuments, 83, 105
-------times, 29, 44, 87, 93, 96 (vide

Kings)
Phoenicians, 2, 59, 60
Phike, 49, 52, 56, 58, 102, 128
------, Osiris particularly worshipped

at, 128
Pilasters, Egyptian, 64

Pillars, square, first used, and origin
of, 6, 91

--------------the 1st order of Egyptian

column (vide square pillars)

--------------with heads of Isis, or of

Athor, 34, 55

Pillars, square, with Typhonian mon-
sters attached to them, 34, 62

------, Osiride (vide Osiride)

------like Steke, at Karnak, 34

Plato and Synesius say the Egyptians
were not allowed to alter the
style of their sacred sculptures, 2 5

Polygonal masonry used to a late
time, by the Romans, 12

--------------distinct from Cyclopean,

9 (note)

--------------, reason for the use of, 11,

12,13

--------------rare in Sicily, 11

--------------found in Mexico, 11 (note)

--------------used in Italy, at the pre-
sent day, on a small scale, 12

--------------and rectangular work in

use at the same time, 11, 12

------columns in Egypt, 7, 38, 80

--------------the prototype of the Doric,

3,38

------■------the 2nd order, 32, 34, 35,

37,38

--------------, origin of, 37, 39

--------------in porticoes, 83

------shaft, without an abacus, 35

Polytheism, 119

Poole's, Mr. Stuart, work on Chrono-
logy, 132

Porphyry, use of, 45 (note)

------quarries of, 45 (note)

Portico, or Pronaos, 83, 84, 89

------with many columns in depth,

84,85

------rarely with open sides, 83

Proportions of columns, and figures
in sculpture, stunted in old
times, 24

Propylsea, Egyptian towers of the,
(vide Pyramidal Towers)

------of Athens, 49

Propylseum (vide Area and Vestibu-
lum)

Propylon (vide Pylon)

Psamaticus, 19, 28, 70

Ptolemaic buildings, 30, 49, 52, 60,
64, 83, 87, 93, 105

------times, columns in, 49, 53, 56,57,

58 (notes), 60, 83