Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . PLATE XXXVI.(A reproduction at small size of Portfolio Plate XXXVI.) STUDY OF THE ORDERS 91 Fig. 47); and the top of the pier was perhaps left square (C, Fig. 48),as the earUer form suggested. But it was now found that the angles of the corners were so ob-tuse that they were hardly distinguishable (A, Fig. 49); and it wasan easy further step to sharpen and emphasize these corners by hol-lowing out the flat surface, at first very slightly (B, Fig, 49). It must be remembered that this is the development of a rock or
Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . PLATE XXXVI.(A reproduction at small size of Portfolio Plate XXXVI.) STUDY OF THE ORDERS 91 Fig. 47); and the top of the pier was perhaps left square (C, Fig. 48),as the earUer form suggested. But it was now found that the angles of the corners were so ob-tuse that they were hardly distinguishable (A, Fig. 49); and it wasan easy further step to sharpen and emphasize these corners by hol-lowing out the flat surface, at first very slightly (B, Fig, 49). It must be remembered that this is the development of a rock orstone-cut pier that we are tracing, and that the instinct of the artisanwas to preserve the distinctive feature, that of the angle or corner,disregarding at first an easier solution—that of making it circular. Fig. 48. Elevations Showing Development of Doric Columns. in plan. We find instances of just this stage of developmentin some of the rock-cut tombs at Beni-Hassan in Egypt, where twocolumns of a form similar to that just described were used in antis(Fig. 31). The process of chamfering off the corner angles would leave uswith a pier of sixteen sides, while the Greeks adopted the numberof twenty for the Doric work of the best periods. This was un-doubtedly after due experimentation, when it was found that six-teen flutes were too coarse for the best effect. At Psestum we findevidences of this process. There, in the Great Temple, the exterior 89 02 STUDY OF THE ORDERS Order of very large columns has twenty-four flutes. The interiorlower Order has twenty, and the upper Order sixteen flutes, evidentlyproportioned with regard to the size and girth of the whole of thecolumn quite as much as to their distance from the eye. In some such way as this was developed the character of the fluting an
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