The arts and crafts of ancient Egypt . THE ARCHITECTURE of all Egyptian buildings (see fig. 83). The insidefaces are always vertical, and this serves to distin-guish the meaning of small portions of wall inexcavations. Slight structures were made of palm-sticks, setupright, and lashed to a cross sticknear the top, with other palm-sticksinterwoven to stiffen the face, andthe whole plastered with construction is made now inEgypt, and is seen in the earliestfigures of shrines. At the top theends of the palm-sticks nod over, and form a fenceto keep out intruders. This row of tops is theor
The arts and crafts of ancient Egypt . THE ARCHITECTURE of all Egyptian buildings (see fig. 83). The insidefaces are always vertical, and this serves to distin-guish the meaning of small portions of wall inexcavations. Slight structures were made of palm-sticks, setupright, and lashed to a cross sticknear the top, with other palm-sticksinterwoven to stiffen the face, andthe whole plastered with construction is made now inEgypt, and is seen in the earliestfigures of shrines. At the top theends of the palm-sticks nod over, and form a fenceto keep out intruders. This row of tops is theorigin of the stone cavetto cornice, which alwaysN\\\II/////* stands free above the level of the the corners the structure of palm-stick was strengthened by a bundle ofsticks or reeds lashed round, and put asa buffer to prevent a blow breaking inthe edge. This became the roll withlashing pattern which is seen down the edges ofthe stone buildings, and also beneath the cavettocornice where it is copied from the line of sticksbelow
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