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The Egyptian Orders. lOI capital, but the latter is encircled by a smooth band and is decorated with the urseus ; the bottom of the slightly tapering shaft springs from an encircling band of painted leaves. Side by side with the type which we have just described we find another to which the hollow outward curve of the capital has given the name of cainpaniform. Nothing like it is to be found at Beni-Hassan, and no example, in stone, is extant from an earlier ^-~ - ^aagd^oi^ae^^a ^tii^i^vm^ Fig. 77. — Column at Luxor ; Description, vol, iii., pi. S. Fig. 7S. — Column at Medinet-Aboa Description, vol. ii., pi. 4. time than that of the Second Theban Empire.^ The base is small. The flutes or separate stems have disappeared. The shaft is either smooth or decorated with bas-reliefs and inscriptions. The ligatures under the capital are still introduced. The springing MVe shall call attention, however, to a hypogeum at Gizeh, which is numbered 81 in Lepsius's map of that tomb-field. As at Beni-Hassan the chamber is preceded by a portico. In Lepsius's drawing (vol i. pi. 27. fig. i), the columns of this portico are campaniform.