Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . racter,which occur in the first tomb of Beni Hasan, have been called?Doric or Egyptd-Doric by Champollion and Falkener, fromtloir resemblance to the Doric columns of the Greeks) Pig. II). Theif resemblance are the marked fluting, the tapering, and the? buf the Proto-Doric differs from the Greek DoricIn being destitute of the echinus, a member resembling an over-hanging wTeathofl idfoTming the capital ofthe Doric i re is the still greater difference that the Proto-;i nnfluted, the sur
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . racter,which occur in the first tomb of Beni Hasan, have been called?Doric or Egyptd-Doric by Champollion and Falkener, fromtloir resemblance to the Doric columns of the Greeks) Pig. II). Theif resemblance are the marked fluting, the tapering, and the? buf the Proto-Doric differs from the Greek DoricIn being destitute of the echinus, a member resembling an over-hanging wTeathofl idfoTming the capital ofthe Doric i re is the still greater difference that the Proto-;i nnfluted, the surfaces being left smooth for theIon of coloured inscriptions. In such cases the column losesIts structural significance, being degraded to a mere surface for HISTORY OF ART. 161 inscriptions, and presents a marked contrast to the Doric, where eachmemher and each line fulfils a definite requirement of the architects of the toinbs of Beni Hasan, however, were notunacquainted with a light and elegant mode of building aboveground, which cannot have originated in the grotto architecture. II. Section of the N. Tomb and Columns of Beni Hasan. This is proved by their use of the lotus-column (Fig. Ill), theprototype of which is a group of four lotus-stalks bound togetherand secured at the top by rings or ligatures, the capital being formedby the blossoms. These columns, which contrast strongly with themassive Proto-Doric, suggest a light style of garden architecturein wood. While the architecture of the eleventh and twelfth dynastiesbears some slight resemblance to the earlier style, the sculpture ofthe same period presents an almost total deviation from the ancienttraditions. The primitive, lifelike realism to which we have al-ready alluded is displaced by the rigorous sway of the Canon, bywhich all proportions are determined by Axed rules, and all forms Baedekers Egypt I. 2ml Ed. 11 162 HISTORY <)l ART. are nee Breotyped. There seems, however, to have been no i in point
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