egriot (ogriot)

[Formerly also agriot, I do not intende to write to the cure of egritudes or syckene es confyrmed. Sir T. Elyot, Castle of Health, iv. Now, now we symbolize in egritude, And simpathize in Cupids malady. Cyprian Academy (1647), p. 34. egualmente (a-gwäl-men'te), adv. [It., equally, evenly, eguale, E. = to apheresis Gipcien, Gipsen, etc., whence mod. Gipsy, q. v.); IMG:content-0257.jpg:[graphic][merged small] Portico of the Temple of Edfou, Ptolemaic period. covered ways, flat, and composed of immense blocks of stone, reaching from one wall or stone epistyle beam to another, the arch, although in all its forms of frequent use in drains and similar works, not being employed in architecture above ground, which holds consistently to the system of lintel-construction. (c) Columns, numerous, close, and ma ive, without bases, or with broad, flat, low bases, and exhibiting great variety in their capitals, from a simple square block to a wide-spreading bell, elaborately carved with palm-leaves or other forms suggested by vegetation, especially in some adaptation of the lotus plant, bud, or flower. (d) The employment of a large concave molding to crown the entablature, decorated with vertical flutings or leaves. (e) Walls and columns decorated with a profusion of sculptures in incised outline, often of admirable precision (see cavo - rilievo ), or in low relief, representing divinities, men, and animals, with innumerable hieroglyphics, brilliant and true, though simple, coloring being superadded. A remarkable feature of Egyptian architecture is the grandeur of its mechanical operations, as in cutting, polishing, sculpturing, and transporting enormous blocks of limestone and of granite, and in its stupendous excavations in the solid rock. The prototype of the Greek Doric order is to be sought in such Egyptian columnar structures as the grotto-façades of Beni-Ha an; and from the Egyptian lotus carvings and decoration were developed many characteristic A yrian decorative motives, as well as the Ionic capital and the graceful anthemion-molding of Greece. See mastaba, obelisk, pylon, pyramid, syrinx, 2, etc. - Egyptian art, the architecture, sculpture, and painting of ancient Egypt, one of the most important of the great artistic developments of the world. (See Egyptian architecture, above.) The earliest known Egyptian IMG:content-0258.jpg:[graphic] Egyptian sculptures, not le than 6,000 years old, exhibit great technical skill, approach nature with remarkable ease and certainty, and far surpa in naturalne the more conventional works which succeeded them. Yet the best Egyptian works of all times po e striking individuality as well as refinement, a very large proportion Egyptian Sculpture. General Rahotep Rahotpou and his Wife, Prince Nefert Nofrit', period of the first Theban empire. of the vast number of portrait statues and reliefs being evidently likene es, and the physical differences of cla , station, and employment, as well as ethnological differences in the countle historical scenes, being clearly rendered. With the advent of the Ptolemies, Greek influences were brought to bear upon Egyptian art, which progre ively lost its good qualities without acquiring those of the art of Greece and of Rome. The great Sphinx of Ghizeh is the oldest as well as the largest work of sculpture known; the colo i of Amenhotep (Amenhotpou) III. at Thebes (one of them is the famous Memnon, so called) are about 52 feet high; those of the Rame eum are of the same height; and that of Tanis is nearly 60 feet high. Egyptian painting is strictly illumination, as the colors are laid on flat, without shading or gradation, within a definite outline. The drawing is typically of great beauty, the outlines being firm, accurate, and graceful. In gem cutting and jewelry, in enamel, in terra cotta and gla , 1856 The Egypt is ing image of the god of Helio polis. C. O. Muller, Manual of Archæol. (trans.), § 240. Egyptologer (ē-jip-tol'ō-jer), n . Same as Egyp tologist . The Aryan mind is offended at seeing men of another continent clothed in such a very European garb; it is for Egyptologers to say whether the sculpture is correct. E. A. Freeman , Venice, p. 171. eighteen it has no frontal proce es, the feathers reaching beyond the nostrils. Steller's duck, Heniconetta stelleri, is often called Steller's eider, and sometimes included in the genus So mater i a. See So mater i a. The eider - duck , which swarmed on Farne island when St. Cuthbert went to lead a lonely life there, became a great favourite with the holy man, and St. Cuthbert's birds are they called to this day. IMG:content-0259.jpg:[graphic]