. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. Fl;;. 89. bmhamk ro a BKtupuuN of tiU skua,.mo. mately allied to their habits and religion, a style whereof _^(/. 8!). will couvev some idia tcthe reader. He is also referred to Jigs. ;51, 32, and ;)3., as examples of the same stvle irIcTsia. Lmaf 1!. GRECIAN. R1 Skct. G 11 A N A KCHITECTU HE, I3;i Tlio architectiii-f of Greece is ulentieal with coluiiinar arcliitecture. Writers on;lie subject liave so invarial)ly treated the hut as


. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. Fl;;. 89. bmhamk ro a BKtupuuN of tiU skua,.mo. mately allied to their habits and religion, a style whereof _^(/. 8!). will couvev some idia tcthe reader. He is also referred to Jigs. ;51, 32, and ;)3., as examples of the same stvle irIcTsia. Lmaf 1!. GRECIAN. R1 Skct. G 11 A N A KCHITECTU HE, I3;i Tlio architectiii-f of Greece is ulentieal with coluiiinar arcliitecture. Writers on;lie subject liave so invarial)ly treated the hut as the type on which it is formed, that, tlioughwe are not thoroui^hly satisfied of the theory being correct, it wouki be difficult to wancierfrom the path they liave trodden. In the section on Egyi)tian architecture, we have aiindedto tlie tombs at Beni-liassan, and we here ])resent a representation of a portion of tliem^Iom a sketch with uhicli we were tavoiued many years since by the late Su- Cliai les. Barry Jiy. 90. ). Tlie reader; w ill perceive. _ in it the a!>peHrance of the Doric column ?^ ^ ~ almost in its purity. Wilkinson (il/«?i/(c;-i and Ci(stotns of tlie Ancient Et/i/jififivs) is(if ojiinion that the date of these tombs is1740 js. c, that is, in the time of the firstOsirtpsen, an anti(]uity which can be as-signed to no exam])le in (ireeee. Thesetombs are excavated in a rock, a short dis-tance from


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