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 The Egyptian Orders. lO post. In curving outwards the extremity of each leaf forms a lobe, which is shown in the plan (Fig. 82). The architect here made free use of the forms occurring in nature, but in the //^/^ ri-^-j "A Fig. 80.— Column from the Great Hall at Kariiak ; Description^ iii. 30. Fig. Si. — Column from ihe Hypostyle Ila'l of the Rameiseum ; from Horeau. Ptolemaic temples we find the palm tree copied in a far more literal fashion. There are capitals at Esneh composed of palm branches grouped in