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open : the shafts of the columns resemble fas-
ces, or bundles of sticks, and. the base, the foot
of the plant lotus t at its rising from the root,
The capitals have no analogy with any known
capital: on the astragal of either side of the
portico, and under the roof between the two
columns of the center, are winged globes, em-
blems repeated in the same place in all Egyp-
tian temples. The hieroglyphics which are
on the crowns of the capitals are all similar,
and all the cielings are decorated with a mean-
der, composed of stars, painted of the aurora
color, upon a blue ground.
This model of Egyptian antique architecture
had remained entire four thousand years; is
nearly covered with hieroglyphics, and is upon
the whole such an edifice that a peasant,
brought from the cottages of his hamlet, and
suddenly placed before it might readily believe
that there was a wide interval between himself
and the creatures by whom it was constructed:
without an idea of architecture, he would say,
this is the house of a god; a man would not
dare to inhabit it.
THE RUINS OF TINTYRA.
• . ‘ . I
As it is not the intention of this work to re-
cord the memoirs of all the suburb monuments
of antiquity in Egypt, we shall close this de-
partment with some observations upon these
stupendous remains from the pen of an enthusi-
astic admirer of ancient architecture.
These buildings, he observes, stand,at the
open : the shafts of the columns resemble fas-
ces, or bundles of sticks, and. the base, the foot
of the plant lotus t at its rising from the root,
The capitals have no analogy with any known
capital: on the astragal of either side of the
portico, and under the roof between the two
columns of the center, are winged globes, em-
blems repeated in the same place in all Egyp-
tian temples. The hieroglyphics which are
on the crowns of the capitals are all similar,
and all the cielings are decorated with a mean-
der, composed of stars, painted of the aurora
color, upon a blue ground.
This model of Egyptian antique architecture
had remained entire four thousand years; is
nearly covered with hieroglyphics, and is upon
the whole such an edifice that a peasant,
brought from the cottages of his hamlet, and
suddenly placed before it might readily believe
that there was a wide interval between himself
and the creatures by whom it was constructed:
without an idea of architecture, he would say,
this is the house of a god; a man would not
dare to inhabit it.
THE RUINS OF TINTYRA.
• . ‘ . I
As it is not the intention of this work to re-
cord the memoirs of all the suburb monuments
of antiquity in Egypt, we shall close this de-
partment with some observations upon these
stupendous remains from the pen of an enthusi-
astic admirer of ancient architecture.
These buildings, he observes, stand,at the