The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 32
ig. 4.—Tomb at Beni-Hassan. (Fig. 4) the fluted columns and moulded lintel calledProto-Doric, from which the Greek Doric order*was eventually evolved. * Order i- a comprehensive term in classieal architecture for acolumn, pedestal, and entablature. THE THEBAN PERIOD. CHARACTERISTICS. g From the… … Fig. 5.—A temple of the Theban period. From Colomb. obelisks, temples, and palaces above broad brick ter-races (Fig. 5), while colossal statues etched them-selves against the sky, like those of Amenophis,which could be seen twenty miles away, and weresaid to cast their shadows as far as the Libyan…
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