Wilkinson, John Gardner; Birch, Samuel [Mitarb.]: The Egyptians in the time of the pharaohs: being a companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian collections (London, 1857)

fcn DESCRIPTION OF THE WOODCUTS.

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116. Panels, and recesses in the thickness of the wall . . . . 150

117. Five of the orders of columns....... 151

117 a. The three other orders........ 152

118. The polygonal column taken from the square pillar . . . 153

119. Origin of the clustered water-plant column, from the water-plant

painted, and afterwards sculptured in high relief, on the square

pillar (fig. 1) . . . ....... 154

120. A feather-like capital, taken also from a plant represented in the

paintings, and often made of glazed pottery . . . .155

121. Water-plants, typical of Upper and Lower Egypt. Figs. 3, 4, have

beneath them the circular hieroglyphic signifying "land" . . 155

122. Origin of the Doric capital....... 156

123. Origin of the Ionic capital. Fig. 3, the volute ornament often

attached to the figure of Astarte, the Phoenician Venus . . 157

124. Origin of the basket capital, which led to the Corinthian . . 158

125. Egyptian triglyphs, on the cornice ... . . 158

126. Goose and sun and zig-zag of Egypt, on oldest Greek vases . . 158

127. Fig. 1, Greek harpy, taken from the Egyptian soul, figs. 2, 3 . 159
12S. Medusa and the Typhonian monster of Egypt .... 159