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

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DOMESTIC HABITS OF THE EGYPTIANS.

In order to strengthen the wall over a doorway, a beam of
wood was let into it, and the jambs were upright posts on
which the lintel rested; and sometimes, besides the framework
and flat beams, the doorway had a round log for its lintel,
which was thought stronger than cut wood (fig. 1).

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(W. 115.) 12 3

The framework over the doorway was afterwards of a more
complicated and ornamental kind, and richly coloured; and
the dead-wall at the sides of a building was sometimes relieved
by panels, or by a sort of niche, either in brickwork or in stone

(W. 110.)

(woodcut 116, figs. 1, 2, 3). If these, and some doorways of
the tombs at the pyramids, were recessed in the thickness of
the wall, they differed, in this respect, from the general cha-
racter of the doorways and mouldings of Egyptian buildings,
which projected beyond the level of the surface; as in Greek
doors and windows; and were therefore unlike those of Lombard,
Italian-Gothic, and some other styles of architecture.

Another ornament over the doorway, found even in buildings