Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers . rethe marked fluting and the tapering; but the Proto-Doric differsfrom the Greek Doric in being destitute of the echinus, a memberresembling an overhanging wreath of leaves, forming the capitalof the true Doric coluum. The chief difference, however, is thatthe shaft of the Egyptian column rests upon a base, while theDoric column springs immediately from the ground. Anotherdifference is that some of the sides of the Proto-Doric column arefrequently unfluted and left flat for the reception of inscriptions. clviii Vn. HISTORY OF EGYPTIAN ART. Along w
Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers . rethe marked fluting and the tapering; but the Proto-Doric differsfrom the Greek Doric in being destitute of the echinus, a memberresembling an overhanging wreath of leaves, forming the capitalof the true Doric coluum. The chief difference, however, is thatthe shaft of the Egyptian column rests upon a base, while theDoric column springs immediately from the ground. Anotherdifference is that some of the sides of the Proto-Doric column arefrequently unfluted and left flat for the reception of inscriptions. clviii Vn. HISTORY OF EGYPTIAN ART. Along with tlie pier and the allied Pioto-Doric column the roundColumn began to he used in Egyptian stone architecture after theheginning of the 5th Dynasty. Its simplest form was the Tree-Trunk Column of two members, -which was an imitation of the an-cient palm-tree supports (p. clvii) and is first found in the mortuarytemple of Sehuie at Abusir. This consists of a low circular b aseand a cylindrical shaft, which was adorned in front with a band of. I. Tomb Chamber and Columns of Benihasan. inscriptions. Usually, however, the column had three parts, itwas crowned by a capital, ending in a square slab known as theabacus, upon which rest the beams of the arcliitrave, supportingthe slabs of the roof. The Egyptian love of plants is well knownfrom various sources, and consistently with this the favourite formsfor columns as early as the Ancient Empire were borrowed fromplant-life. Two plants especially were most frequently copied, variety of lotus (Nymphsea lotus) and the papyrus (Cypeius VIl. HISTORY OF EOyPTIAN ART. papyrus). Sometimes the column represents a single plant-stem,sometimes a cluster of stems held together by bands; while thecapital imitates in turn the closed bud or the open calyx (Fig. II).Thus there arise four varieties of plant-columns: the simple plant-column with bud-capitals and the same with calyx-capitals; andthe clustered plant-column with bud or caly
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