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 The Egyptian Orders. 1 1 1 of its curves than any of our predecessors. Leaves and flowers are most happily arranged, and are painted also with an exquisite finish not ta be found elsewhere. The decoration as a whole is of extraordinary richness. The royal ovals, with the disk of the sun and the uraeus, encircle the shaft ; vultures with outspread Fig. Sj. — Hathorio pier from Eilithya. Lepsius, part i., pi. loo. Fig. Sti. — Haihoric pier from a tomb. Boulak. wings cover the ceiling, and the architrave is carved on its visible sides, with long rows of hieroglyphs.^ ^ The slabs of which the roof is formed are grooved on their upper surfaces at their lines of junction (see Fig. 93), a curious feature which recurs in other Egyptian buildings, but has never been satisfactorily explained.