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ORIGIN OF THE VOLUTE.
157
3°. The Doric capital from the bud of the Egyptian, with the
abacus lowered to the curve of its base, which has been fully
confirmed by the Egyptian columns of the same form, found
by Mr. Palkener, in the temple of the lake at Karnak (see
Mus. Class. Antiq., vol. i. p. S7). 4°. The ninepin-shaped
shaft, as at Prestum, derived from the extravagant swell
of the Egyptian bud column; which was imitated also by
the Romans at the Amphitheatriim Castrense at Some.
5°. The Mutules, copied from the rafters of a fiat roof (not
OV. 123.) 1 2 3
from the pent roof of Greece), which are seen in the fafade of
a rock-tomb at Beni Hassan. 6°. The Ionic volutes, taken
from the water-plant column (common on Egyptian canopies as
early as the sixteenth century before our era), which has the
pendent ornament at the corner, introduced behind the Ionic
volute; and here we see the graceful change made from the
clumsy Egyptian form to the festoon shape of the Attic Ionic,
with its epitraclielion substituted for the Egyptian bands round
the neck of the shaft {see above, p. 156, and woodcuts 121,
figs. 1, 3, and 123, figs. 1, 2). A volute ornament is also the
emblem of Astarte, the Phoenician Yenus, and is the same
as that of Egypt (when drawn in outline) inverted (fig. 3);
and its presence at the Druidical-looking ruins of Crendi, in
Malta, seems to show their connection with the worship of that
goddess. A sceptre, too, of the same form occurs in the hand
of Astarte on Phoenician coins. 7°. The basket capital; the
oldest form of what afterwards became the Corinthian; which
is found at the Tower of the Winds, and at the Acropolis, in
157
3°. The Doric capital from the bud of the Egyptian, with the
abacus lowered to the curve of its base, which has been fully
confirmed by the Egyptian columns of the same form, found
by Mr. Palkener, in the temple of the lake at Karnak (see
Mus. Class. Antiq., vol. i. p. S7). 4°. The ninepin-shaped
shaft, as at Prestum, derived from the extravagant swell
of the Egyptian bud column; which was imitated also by
the Romans at the Amphitheatriim Castrense at Some.
5°. The Mutules, copied from the rafters of a fiat roof (not
OV. 123.) 1 2 3
from the pent roof of Greece), which are seen in the fafade of
a rock-tomb at Beni Hassan. 6°. The Ionic volutes, taken
from the water-plant column (common on Egyptian canopies as
early as the sixteenth century before our era), which has the
pendent ornament at the corner, introduced behind the Ionic
volute; and here we see the graceful change made from the
clumsy Egyptian form to the festoon shape of the Attic Ionic,
with its epitraclielion substituted for the Egyptian bands round
the neck of the shaft {see above, p. 156, and woodcuts 121,
figs. 1, 3, and 123, figs. 1, 2). A volute ornament is also the
emblem of Astarte, the Phoenician Yenus, and is the same
as that of Egypt (when drawn in outline) inverted (fig. 3);
and its presence at the Druidical-looking ruins of Crendi, in
Malta, seems to show their connection with the worship of that
goddess. A sceptre, too, of the same form occurs in the hand
of Astarte on Phoenician coins. 7°. The basket capital; the
oldest form of what afterwards became the Corinthian; which
is found at the Tower of the Winds, and at the Acropolis, in