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column ; and very slender, — seven diameters. The astragal is a nar- 

 row band, — .061 of the shaft-height, not divided into rings, projecting 

 prominently from the shaft, and separated from the capital by an in- 

 terval a little narrower than itself. The capital is low, — .14 of the 

 shaft-height, .11 of the column; but of quite normal proportions, — 

 .54 of its own expansion in height, and 1.76 shaft-diameters in greatest 

 width. The abacus is reduced to the minimum, — .014 of the column- 

 height. 



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One set of twenty columns, to which I have already referred as 

 perhaps the only real exception to the applicability of the classification 

 proposed in this essay, has usually been rather helplessly grouped with 

 the bell columns, and may be well described at this point. These 



Fig. 11. Anomalous Bell Column from Tomb 81, Plateau of Gizoh. One of a 



set of four. (After Lepsius.) 

 Fig. 12. Column witb inverted bell capital, and inverted shaft, from the Hall 



of Thothmes III. in the rear of the Great Temple of Karnak. (After 



Lepsius.) 



