first suggestions ofthe forms which were afterwards developed with success instone architecture. The type of capital which occurs most frequently in the buildingsof the New Empire is certainly that which has been compared toa truncated lotus-bud ; ^ we may call it the lotifonii capital, anda… … lU Fig. 54.—Bas-relief from the 5th dynasty ; fromLepsius. Fig. 55.—Detail of capital; fromthe same bas-relief. After the type of capital just mentioned, that which occurs mostfrequently at Karnak and elsewhere is the cajiipatii/orni type, inwhich the general outline resembles that of an inverted…
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