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I04 A History of Art in Ancient EovrT. stages about the central shaft and copied leaf for leaf. Some- times, as at Philse, we even find date clusters mingled with the leaves. The other capital to which we have alluded as occurring in the work of Thothmes at Karnak, is shaped like a suspended bell. The upper part of the shaft swells slightly so as to coincide with the outer rim of the bell ; it is encircled with fillets below which is cut a vertical band of hieroglyphs. The capital is decorated with leaves growing downwards and on the whole it may be taken as showing the companiform type reversed. 'S^:(^ih: B Fig. 82. — Column of Soleb ; from Lepsius, part i. pi. 117. Fig. 83. — Column of Thothmes at Karnak ; from Lepsius, part i., pi. 81. In this comparison between the different forms which were successively given to the Egyptian column, we might, if we had chosen, have included other varieties ; and yet we do not think we have omitted any that are of importance. We have figured them to one scale so that their relative proportions can be at once grasped, and we have now to analyse the methods in which they were allied with their supports and superstructures. For that purpose we shall have to reproduce several of the