Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . a b v. Papyrus Columns. is an order of column of the new empire, which was adorned partly with sculpture and partly with painting, and which afterwards gradually adopted the conventional form. This column tiere ii is encircled with a Blight wreath of reed ; I Upwards, anil ill BOme cases presents a sli;i : th horizontal bands and hieroglyphics, ami in a shaft grooved so as to imitate the stalks of a plant (the HISTORY OF ART. 165 papyrus) which are bound together at the top with a lig
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . a b v. Papyrus Columns. is an order of column of the new empire, which was adorned partly with sculpture and partly with painting, and which afterwards gradually adopted the conventional form. This column tiere ii is encircled with a Blight wreath of reed ; I Upwards, anil ill BOme cases presents a sli;i : th horizontal bands and hieroglyphics, ami in a shaft grooved so as to imitate the stalks of a plant (the HISTORY OF ART. 165 papyrus) which are bound together at the top with a ligature. Thecapitals, somewhat simple in form, and tapering upwards , aresometimes decorated on the lower part with a wreath of uprightreed leaves, and sometimes, like the shafts, are treated as surfacesfor painting, in which case their origin in the vegetable kingdomis indicated by a few painted buds only (Fig. V. a, b).. i VI. Calyx Capitals. While the columns hitherto described performed the structuralfunction in temples and tombs of supportingmassive stone roofs, the order of columns withCalyx Capitals was chiefly used for the decorativepurpose of enclosing the processional approachin the anterior halls of the temples, and was re-quired to support but little weight. The shaftsof these columns rest on round bases resemblingdiscs, they taper downwards, and are treated assurfaces for painting. The flowers and leaves onthe capitals sometimes seem to be attached super-ficially only (Fig. VI. a), while in other casesthe leaves appear to form a wreath, growing outof a columnar stem, and leaning slightly out-wards so as to assume the calyx form. Of this stylethe papyrus (Fig. VI. 6) and the palm (Fig. VI. c)formed the natural prototypes, and even at alate period several other very pleasing types wereadded. Another kind of column, which seems tohave been much in vogue during the latest periodof independent E
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