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DOMESTIC HA13ITS OF THE EGYPTIANS.
recalling the cow-headed columns found at Delos, given in
Stuart and Kivett's Athens (Suppl. Vol. p. 26).
It is sufficiently evident that the Egyptians were not fond of
uniformity, as some have imagined; for though their archi-
tecture had a marked character, its component parts and
accessories were very varied; and their fondness for variety
is shown in the juxta-position of columns of different Orders ;
which was at last carried to such an extreme, that no two
adjacent capitals were alike in the same portico.
In the oldest monuments of the third and fourth dynasties,
about Memphis and the pyramids, certain ornaments and
mouldings were in vogue, which are seldom found at Thebes;
but these are owing quite as much to local taste as to early-
date ; and it was not till the eighteenth dynasty had united all
E°ypt under one king, that the same uniformity of style
prevailed throughout the country. All, however, was of the
same general character.
The interest that attaches to their architecture is greatly
increased by our knowing that the Egyptians being long the
leading nation of antiquity, and the one to whom others, and
particularly the Greeks, looked during their early career,
for instruction, much was adopted from them which was
afterwards carried to perfection by that highly gifted race.
Among the peculiarities in architecture,
borrowed by the Greeks from Egypt, may
be mentioned : 1°. the polygonal column
with its shallow flutes, the origin of the
Doric shaft. 2°. The annuli taken from
the five bands round the neck of the
Egyptian clustered column, composed of
four water-plants hound together — an
evident imitation, as the Greek shaft had nothing to hind.
i
(W. 122.)
DOMESTIC HA13ITS OF THE EGYPTIANS.
recalling the cow-headed columns found at Delos, given in
Stuart and Kivett's Athens (Suppl. Vol. p. 26).
It is sufficiently evident that the Egyptians were not fond of
uniformity, as some have imagined; for though their archi-
tecture had a marked character, its component parts and
accessories were very varied; and their fondness for variety
is shown in the juxta-position of columns of different Orders ;
which was at last carried to such an extreme, that no two
adjacent capitals were alike in the same portico.
In the oldest monuments of the third and fourth dynasties,
about Memphis and the pyramids, certain ornaments and
mouldings were in vogue, which are seldom found at Thebes;
but these are owing quite as much to local taste as to early-
date ; and it was not till the eighteenth dynasty had united all
E°ypt under one king, that the same uniformity of style
prevailed throughout the country. All, however, was of the
same general character.
The interest that attaches to their architecture is greatly
increased by our knowing that the Egyptians being long the
leading nation of antiquity, and the one to whom others, and
particularly the Greeks, looked during their early career,
for instruction, much was adopted from them which was
afterwards carried to perfection by that highly gifted race.
Among the peculiarities in architecture,
borrowed by the Greeks from Egypt, may
be mentioned : 1°. the polygonal column
with its shallow flutes, the origin of the
Doric shaft. 2°. The annuli taken from
the five bands round the neck of the
Egyptian clustered column, composed of
four water-plants hound together — an
evident imitation, as the Greek shaft had nothing to hind.
i
(W. 122.)