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Updated: June 28, 2025
II. Columns with Lotus-bud Capitals. Originally these may perhaps have represented a bunch of lotus plants, the buds being bound together at the neck to form the capital. The bottom of the column is bulbous, and set round with triangular leaves. The top is surrounded by three or five bands.
It is always furnished with a base like that of the polygonal pillar, sometimes square with the ground, and sometimes slightly rounded. This base is either plain, or ornamented only with a line of hieroglyphs. The principal forms fall into three types: the column with campaniform, or lotus-flower capital; the column with lotus-bud capital; the column with Hathor-head capital.
And Youth and Life built fair castles in the air, with turrets of sapphire and gates of beaten gold, wherein they dreamed the days away on a bed of thornless roses, drained the chalice of the honeysuckle, ate the lotus-bud and thought of naught in all the world but love. Of this soft dalliance was born a son, and Life cried with falling tears, "Now I am shamed!"
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