Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 185
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… … ,ip4p** Fio. 67.—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 ofEgypt was not mathematical, like that of Greece. Finally, all Egyptian buildings are crowned by the sameentablature, an…
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