meter of thecolumn, and the standard of proportion which is based upon itis called a canon. In Egypt, as in other countries, there musthave been a certain connection between the diameter of a columnand its height, but there was no approach to that rigid andimmutable law which had its effect upon… … Fig. 6.—The Egyptian Gorge or Cornice. edifice had so little dependence upon the modulus that we neednot take it into consideration, and, in this sense, the art ofEo-ypt was not mathematical, like that of Greece. Finally, all Egyptian buildings are crowned by the sameentablature, an architrave and…
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