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 The Origin of Doric Architecture. 165 wall. It has been observed of the Egyptian gorge, that it often presents vertical channellings, under the Iistel surmounting it, the regular spacing of which brings tp the mind triglyphs and metopes (Fig. 316). The resemblance is only skin deep; closer inspection brings home the fact that a wide difference parts the two entablatures. There is no distinction between frieze and cornice in the Egyptian buildings, and mutules and guttae are conspicuous by their absence. It is the same with the Doric capital, whose prototype has been sought on the banks of the Nile, an hypothesis to which reference has been made and traversed by us.' If Mycenian architecture was influenced by a Fic 316. — Egyptian cavetlo of temple at Edfou. foreign architecture, we should look for the source in another direction. The architectures of Egypt and Greece have different points of departure ; they are not afifecled by the same needs or the same thoughts. Such methods as worked with materials other than those which had gone before were not brought into existence at Memphis or Thebes, but at Tiryns and Mycenx, where with the passing of time they had grown and flourished, and were applied by classic art to the temple, its masterpiece and supreme intellectual effort, y^ t is possible that the relation we have pointed out might have leen divined without entering into so elaborate a comparison of > History of Art,