The Architecture of Ancient Egypt: In Which the Columns Are Arranged in Orders and the Temples Classified, with Remarks on the Early Progress of Architecture, Etc
The Architecture of Ancient Egypt: In Which the Columns Are Arranged in Orders and the Temples Classified, with Remarks on the Early Progress of Architecture, Etc
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...were frequently seen, with no nearer approach to their intended form than in three sets of stones, projecting one beyond the other; which differed slightly, according to the variety to which they were to belong.f In this same order may be classed some fanciful columns at Karnak, of the early time of Thothmes III; which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...were frequently seen, with no nearer approach to their intended form than in three sets of stones, projecting one beyond the other; which differed slightly, according to the variety to which they were to belong.f In this same order may be classed some fanciful columns at Karnak, of the early time of Thothmes III; which present the singular novelty of capitals placed upside down, and a shaft thicker at the upper than the lower end;% the cornice projecting beneath the windows, in the same building, is no less strange and unsightly, being bevelled downwards from the window-sill, and having also the appearance of being placed upside down. But these fungus-shaped columns were not imitated by the successors of that capricious royal architect; who, not satisfied with erecting a greater number of buildings than any of his predecessors, committed the injustice of erasing the name of his sister, and copartner in the throne, from the monuments she built, and claiming them as his own. I have given the most common varieties; they amounted, in Roman times, to more than twenty. Vide supra, p. 29. t Vide Plate xii, fig. 5. X Vide Plate xv, figs. 1,2. 8. The eighth order is the Osiride pillar, answering to the Caryatide of Greece, f It consists of a square pillar, with the statue of a king, in the form of Osiris (the abstract idea of goodness) attached to the front of it; from which I have given it the name of Osiride pillar. It evidently derived its origin from the square pillar, with the figure of the god painted, and afterwards sculptured in relief, upon it; and the same remark applies to those, which have figures of a Typhonian monster attached to them.% The statue itself does not support any member of the building; and the architrave rests solely on the square pillar b...
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