Architecture : an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · New York : H. Holt and company · leaf 34
ed up-wards to the upper quarter, whichspread again in a graceful curvewhich was carved into palm leaves.Several capitals of this kind havebeen found at Abousir, and there isan example of this type of columnfrom the pyramid of Unas in theBritish Museum (fig. 11). The wholeis a monolith, the capital… … Fig. 10. 82 ARCHITECTURE such capitals in a fashion of tying flowers tothe posts of huts and shrines, or at leastof painting flowers and bindings on thecapitals of the wooden columns. Stonecolumns required no bases, but wooden postsrested on low, round, stone blocks, and thesewere later brought…
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