Architecture; an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London: Williams and Norgate · leaf 34
80 ARCHITECTURE promise between the horizontal and the vertical. In the pre-dynastic age hard stone had been cut with wonderful precision into vases of various forms. In building wrought stone seems to have been first used during the First Dynasty ; a pavement of fair stone slabs has been found of… … baluster (fig. 8). Amongst the hiero- glyphs at Meydum — third or fourth dynasties —is one of a column-like object having the baluster form, a spreading capital, and the lower part of the shaft wrapped with triangular leaves. It is the " papyrus sceptre," and it is so exactly like later columns,…
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