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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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150 INDEX.

Tombs, circular, in Asia Minor and

Varieties of style, or of ornament, 26,

not in Egypt (vide round), 4, 112

61, 64

------at Thebes, 108, 109, 111

Vestibulum, or area, or propylseum,

------Egyptian, 108

82,89

------- hewn in the rock (vide rock-

Villas of the Egyptians, 20, 22

tombs)

Vitruvius, Egyptian cecus, described

Tombs of the poorer class were pits,

by, 21

108

------complains of the long columns,

-------at the pyramids, 19,108, 110

the (scrolls we call) arabesques,

Torus, 66

and masses of red paint, used in

-------of the pyramidal towers, 106

his time, 21

Towers of the Propylaea, for defence

------mentions a blue colour invented

(.vide pyramidal towers), 21

in Egypt, 99

Triad, 101

------guided by the works of Ionian

Triads, 120,129

architects, 37 (note)

-------very ancient, 121

Uniformity, studied avoidance of

Triglyphs {vide Doric), 39, 68

(vide symmetry)

Trinity, 118 (note), 120 (note)

Unity of the Deity, 114

Truth and the creative power, 116

Volutes, origin of, 59

Tumulus gave the form to pyramids

Volute, ornaments of a composite

and to conical tombs, 112

Egyptian column, 58

Typhon, or Seth, 124,127

Use of large stones, error respecting

Typhonian monsters, attached to pil-

the, 107

lars, 34, 62



--------------on capitals of columns, 56

WADEE HALEEH, temple with

Tyrrheni, figures of the {vide Etrus-

square pillars at, 33, 83

cans), 4

Wickedness, or sin, confounded with



evil, 124, 127



------■------represented as a great ser-

VARIETY in the columns, an Egyp-

pent, or the giant Apop, 124,126

tian not a Greek idea, 30, 61

"Windows of Temples, 93

--------------not introduced by the Pto-

Winged globe, or agathoditmon, a

lemies, 103

characteristic of Egyptian archi-

Varieties of the composite columns

tecture, 32

more than twenty, 29, 61

--------------over doorways, 32, 67, 94

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