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Identifier: handbookofarchae00west (find matches)
Title: Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884
Subjects: Art, Ancient Archaeology
Publisher: London, Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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1ILLAR, BENDERA. OS!RIDE PILLAR. the development of the column was the octagon form, produced bycutting off the angles of the square, with an abacus surmounting it.By further cutting off the angles of the octagon, it was gradually COLUMNS. 41 converted into a polygonal shape, such as is seen in the tombs ofBeni-Hassan. The want, however, of room, and a place forsculpturing and painting hieroglyphical inscriptions and nrytho-logical figures, led at a later period to the necessity of adopting around form of shaft, such as was used in the temples of Karnak andLuxor. These were always covered with sculpture and hiero-glyphics. Their proportions varied greatly. Those columns des-tined to support large masses, are of a very large diameter in pro-portion to their height. Their capitals were in endless variety.tSome capitals in the shape of the calyx of a lotos, or of a bell shape,are of extraordinary elegance and richness. On others we have thepapyrus plant, with its stem and leaves, and the

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