Column Types

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Egyptian columns had shafts of three types: a) circular or cylindrical, b) clustered, c) polygonal or proto-doric. The first two tapered upward and sometimes had a slight swelling at the base (d).

Source

A. D. F. Hamlin, A History of Ornament (New York: The Century Company, 1916) 47

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