. Easy steps in architecture and architectural drawing .. . 34. PILLAR OF THETEMPLE OF BDFU. Fig. 35. PILLAR OF THEPALACE LUXOR. 30. The shaft is sometimes thick and sometimes slen-der, but never diminishing. Its height varies from 3to 414 times the diameter of the base, or, in some in-stances, even 5 to 5% times. This shaft is occasionallysmooth, and only ornamented above and below, but it isgenerally marked off by horizontal lines into divisions,which are covered with sculptures and hieroglyphics(Fig. 34). It often consists of convex bands placed ver-tically, which resemble a bundle of thick
. Easy steps in architecture and architectural drawing .. . 34. PILLAR OF THETEMPLE OF BDFU. Fig. 35. PILLAR OF THEPALACE LUXOR. 30. The shaft is sometimes thick and sometimes slen-der, but never diminishing. Its height varies from 3to 414 times the diameter of the base, or, in some in-stances, even 5 to 5% times. This shaft is occasionallysmooth, and only ornamented above and below, but it isgenerally marked off by horizontal lines into divisions,which are covered with sculptures and hieroglyphics(Fig. 34). It often consists of convex bands placed ver-tically, which resemble a bundle of thick reeds, and 116 EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE which in their turn are surrounded by several horizontalbelts (Fig. 35). The shaft almost invariably rests on a circular plinthas a base, which projects more or less in different in-stances. 31. The capitals of the columns display an immensevariety. The most beautiful have a crater-like form, andappear like the projecting bell of a flower, with leavesstanding out from the surface (Fig. 37). At the lower liiiii.
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