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d various facilities of work have yet inspired no one. Some are anxious to build iron houses as much like stone as possible; the most ambitious attempt is an immense barn at Sydenham, England, — an engineering success, but not a work of inspiration. The Egyptian capitals were the prototypes of those of the Grecian and Roman orders; and the various ceramic works of the Greeks and Etruscans were strangely like those of the Nile people. The opening of the Egyptian ports by Psammeticus, 670 B. C., was fortunate for the nations on the northern shore of the Mediterranean. For Specific Index of architecture, see Mason's and bricklayer's work. Ar′chi-ton-nere. A name for the steam gun. Archi-trave. （Architecture.) That portion of an entablature which rests upon the columns; the lintel. （Carpentry.) The molding around a doorway or window. The respective portions are known as the transverse architrave, and architrave jambs. Ar′chi-volt. （Architecture