Their height is determined only by the taste of the architect or the necessities of the building.

So also with the spacing of columns.

Not only does the inter- columnar space vary considerably between temple and temple, or chamber and chamber, but sometimes--as in the first court at Medinet Habu--they vary in the same portico.

We have thus far treated separately of each type; but when various types were associated in a single building, no fixed relative proportions were observed.

In the hypostyle hall at Karnak, the campaniform columns support the nave, while the lotus-bud variety is relegated to the aisles (fig.