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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 77

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th an arris or edge (Fig.63, d). The so-called proto-doric columns had fromeight to thirty-two sides, flat or slightly concaved; theyare chiefly found in rock-cut tombs and a few scantytemple-ruins of the JNIiddle Empire (Fig. 63, c). The Capitals of columns i r^were of the greatest variety,but… … EGYPTIAX ORXAMENT III, 9, 10) ; the palmiform (Fig. 64, c; Plate III, 17) ;and the Hathoric (Plate III, 9). The bud-capital wasthe most common; the campaniform appears chiefly inthe central aisles of hypostyle halls, as at Karnak and theRamesseum; the compound campaniform, the palmiformand the…

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