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 The Ordonnanxe of Egvi'tian Colonxadks. v-»:> of column (Plate IV^). It is more than probable that this happy arrangement was not confined to Thebes. We should no doubt have encountered it in more than one of the temples of Memphis and the Delta had they been preserved to our time. Its principle was reproduced in the propylaea of the acropolis at Athens, where the Ionic and Doric orders figured side by side. c z? □ Bsaoccj CDaQoac OOOOOO OOOOOD OOCOOO OGOOOa Fjg. 103. — Tomb at SakUarah. Fig. 104. — 1 1 all in the inner porti'^n of the Great Temple at Karnak. In the ancient tombs at Sakkarah the quadrangular pier alone was used to support the roof (Fig. 103). In the Theban temples it was combined with the column. In the chamber called the ambulatory of Thothmes (J in Fig. 215. 'ol. I.), at Karnak, a row of square piers surrounds an avenue of circular columns which to bear the roof (Fig. 104). r^ o o o o o o

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