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 The Egyptian Orders. 89 it is always inclined to elongate forms. The decorations at Pompeii are a striking instance of this. Pompeian painters gave impossible proportions to their columns, which evidently existed ^^m I ft 3S' Figs. 62 — 65, — Columns from bas-reliefs (Prisse) no where but in their own fancies. We admit that the Egyptian decorators did something of the same kind, that they exaggerated proportions and accumulated motives on a single capital, which VOL. II. X