. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. e, alluded tothe Pyramids ; to which we here add, that,whatever might have been their ])urpose, it iscertain that the form adopted in them — one that, among other people, was devoted to the ]nirposes of sepulture—was of all architecturalforms that calculated to ensure durability, and was, moreover, well suited to the views of anation which took extraordinary means to preserve the body after life, and expended largesums on their tombs. 84. Ornament o
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. e, alluded tothe Pyramids ; to which we here add, that,whatever might have been their ])urpose, it iscertain that the form adopted in them — one that, among other people, was devoted to the ]nirposes of sepulture—was of all architecturalforms that calculated to ensure durability, and was, moreover, well suited to the views of anation which took extraordinary means to preserve the body after life, and expended largesums on their tombs. 84. Ornament or Decoration may be considered under two heads, — that which con-sists in objects foreign to the forms of the edifices themselves, such as statues, obelisks,&c. ; and that which is actually affixed to them, such as the carving on the friezes, bas-reliefs, &c. 85. The former of these are remarkable for the size and beauty of the materials whereofthey are composed. First for notice are their statues of colossal dimensions, which are mostly,if not always, in a sitting attitude. The two here gnen (fff. 64.) are from the Fig. 63, ClIAl. II. KGVlTIAN. sn
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