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 The General Principles of Form. 59 arranges them as to make them dependent one upon the other/ This principle is certainly not applied here with the rigorous consistency exhibited in Greek architecture; yet it cannot be denied that, in a general way, it determined die heights assigned to the various parts of the elevation. Granting two orders of columns of different size at Persepolis, it is found that the pro- portions of the parts in each order are practically klentical ; whilst in the pseudo-buildings fig^ured on the sepulchral fafades, a relation of the same nature exists between the dimensions of the supports and that of the entablature over them. We have shown diat in Egypt no attempts were ever made to subordinate the various elements of the building one to the other, and that the column never approached a cylindrical shape.* The total height of the great columns in the principal palace at Persepolis is 12 diameters, of which 9! belong to the shaft,* i} to the base,* and i| to 5I to the capital, according as it is simple or complicated. Elsewhere the entire height of the order is some- what less than 12 diameters;' whilst in one of the porches it falls to I of diameters,* bringing it very near to that of the tombs at Nak^-i-Rustem, computed at loj. The mutual relations of height between column and entablature are no less constant These, owing to the ruinous state of the buildings, are only to be traced now in the fa9ade of the royal hypogees, where the entablature is one-third or one-quarter of the height of the order on which it is placed.^ The same pro- portions hold good in regard to the attics of the palaces, so far at least as may be guessed from the notches cut at the top of pillars on which.rested the ends of the timber pieces (Fig. 9)." I The laws regulating proportion are seen at their best at in I Fist, of Art, torn, i p. 103. Istakhr, i| diameter. ^ In the tomb south-west of the plateau, the order is three times the height of the entablature, whilst in those at Naksh-i-Kustem the height of the order is three two-fourths and four times as great as that of tlffi entablature. Na 4 is the only excepdon to the role. times two-fifths in palace Na 6. Digitized by Google
 * The consequences involved in the adoption of die "module * are duly set forth
 * Ibid., pp. 101-103.
 * No. 2 in plan, Fig. to.
 * In porch No. i and palace No. 3, i diameter ; palace Na 8, as well as at
 * Palace No. 3. * Porch No. i.
 * In palace Na 3 the order is three times as great as the entabhture and three