. Easy steps in architecture and architectural drawing .. . metimesopen and sometimes hewn out of the rock, or a coveredvestibule forms the entrance, which opens into an en-trance-hall, with smaller chambers beyond, in which pil-lars or columns are introduced according to the exi-gencies of the case. The ground-floor (Fig. 48) and thesection (Fig. 49) of the rock-temple at Ipsamboul il-lustrate this construction. In the latter figure is seenone of the four sitting colossal statues which are hewnout of the rock in front of the entrance, and which at-tain a height of 68I/2 feet. Fig. 47 gives a
. Easy steps in architecture and architectural drawing .. . metimesopen and sometimes hewn out of the rock, or a coveredvestibule forms the entrance, which opens into an en-trance-hall, with smaller chambers beyond, in which pil-lars or columns are introduced according to the exi-gencies of the case. The ground-floor (Fig. 48) and thesection (Fig. 49) of the rock-temple at Ipsamboul il-lustrate this construction. In the latter figure is seenone of the four sitting colossal statues which are hewnout of the rock in front of the entrance, and which at-tain a height of 68I/2 feet. Fig. 47 gives a perspective EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE 127 view of the entrance-hall, in which are seen eight stand-ing colossal statues 33 feet high, supported by squarepiers. Fig. 50 gives a view of the entrance with thecolossal statues. The larger rock-tombs have a similararrangement: the vestibule is generally open to the air,then more or less halls and chambers, and finally narrowpassages issuing from them, in which are placed themummy-cases in well-like Pig. 49. SECTION OF THE ROCK-TEMPLE AT IPSAMBOUL. 39. In essential particulars the palaces are adornedand arranged in the same way as the temples, with theexception that in their case the successive steps to theinner sanctuarium are not so clearly marked, and thatthe whole space with its entrance-courts and many-pil-lared halls is surrounded by a continuous wall. Fig,51 may perhaps serve to give an idea of the design ofthese palaces, which were executed with the utmostmagnificence. 128 EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE An avenue of crio-sphinxes, 810 feet long, and in con-tinuation of the same , which passed through fourpylons erected at various intervals, leads in an obliquedirection of the side entrance of the palace (Fig. 51X).On the contrary the main, entrance leads through a co-lossal pylon to a court (A) surrounded by colonnades,and which is 332 feet long by 269 feet broad, and in- ^ ]m3^uiJ3j-iz:_A~ v^^fy-
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