Caption:
Column from Karnak, Egypt, (1928). 'Papyrus composite column with bud capital...from the "promenoir"..in Karnak...the eastern part of the great Temple of Amun, the so-called Festive Temple of Tethmosis III...1501-1448 B.C.'. After Prisse D'Avennes. Plate III, fig 5, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]