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Title: The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896 Wood, J. E Davies, Benjamin Rees
Subjects: Classical antiquities Archaeology
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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dings were called indifferentlyby various names, and we find that the Stoa at Elis, calledPoecile, was also called Echo^ (v. 21). This circumstance,unimportant as it seems, would appear to indicate that thebuilduig was of the form which we have attributed to theLesche, the long wall of which probably faced a lofty rock,and thus produced the seven-fold echo, as we frequently findefifected by the perpendicular cliffs of some river-gorge. It is probable that all these buildings were ornamented withstatues. The Corcyrean Portico had statues on each side ofthe wall; and Pausanias incidentally notices certain statues inthe Royal Portico at Athens (i. 3), in the Poecile of that city,and in the Poecile at EHs. Among other decorations, thePoecile at Athens was ornamented with shields and otherspoils. Ed. Note.—The effect of these buildings must have been very similar to Schinkelssplendid facade of the Museum at Berlin. 87 VIII. ON SOME EGYPTIAN-DORIC COLUMNS IN THESOUTHERN TEMPLE AT KARNAK.*
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ENGLISH FEET * Extracted from a communication to the Eoyal Institute of British Architects,in the Session of 1849-50. 88 DORIC COLUMNS IN EGYPT. IN a Dissertation by Dr. Lepsius, Sur les Colonnes Piliers^that distinguished antiquary has brought forward notices ofnumerous polygonal and fluted columns in Egypt. Of these,those which approach nearest to the Doric order were thecolumns of a tomb at Beni-Hassan, and of a temple at Kalabshe,the shafts of which are ornamented with twenty flutes, and onthese shafts is placed the abacus, without the intervention ofany echinus or other moulding. This trifling resemblance to the orders of Grecian archi-tecture has caused many to assert that they see no aflinitybetween such pillars and the Doric column, and that they cannotbelieve that one could possibly have been derived from theother. In the Southern Temple at Karnak, however, which is repre-sented in the accompanying plan, I discovered three columnswhich I believe have hitherto been unobserved,

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