118.—P. [21]. L.D. III. 76.
The plain flower was also used very early, as we see on the head-band of Nefert at the beginning of the IVth dynasty. And as architectural ornament it appears as a capital in wood of the Vth dynasty in the tomb of Imery. At Karnak there is a celebrated pair of granite pillars, one with the papyrus, the other with the lotus; and this form, with the sepals turned over at the end, became the more usual in the Empire and later times.
The variety of lotus capital is very great. The bud capital and the opened flower are both shown in the XVIIIth dynasty (tomb of Khaemhat); and many composite, complicated, and impossible combinations were piled together in the decadent age of the Ramessides.
119.—P. Mon. L.
120.—R.C. lviii.
121.—P. [88].
