. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ing forms of the portals of these ruins, or jiorticoes, as EeBruyn calls them, and those of the structures of Egypt, there is a very striking comparison of the two, it is impossible not to be struck with the large crowning hol-lowed member, which seems to have been common to the edifices on the banks of the Nileand those on the plain of .Alerdaslit. In both, this member, forming, as it were, an en-tablature, is ornamented with vertica
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ing forms of the portals of these ruins, or jiorticoes, as EeBruyn calls them, and those of the structures of Egypt, there is a very striking comparison of the two, it is impossible not to be struck with the large crowning hol-lowed member, which seems to have been common to the edifices on the banks of the Nileand those on the plain of .Alerdaslit. In both, this member, forming, as it were, an en-tablature, is ornamented with vertical ribs or leaves, and the large fillet above the hollowappears e([ually in each. In the walls of the Persepolitan remains, there is jierhaps less realmassiveness than in those which were the works of the Egyiitiaiis ; but the similarity ofap|)earance between them points to the conjecture that, though neither miglit have bfciiborroueil from the other, tliev arc not inanv removes from one common parent. The an- 22 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTUllK. Book 1. nexfl (Ii i^rim (^fg 26 ) \m11 ^i\e tlie iciki some Tiotion of the st\ k oftlit iicliittctuic of.
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