Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fisr. -Plan of temple of Hathor,Deir el Medineh. of the building by a 86 RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE. four campaniform columns 23 feet in height ; the sideaisles have only two lotiform columns 18 feet central portion is 5 feet higher than the sideaisles. Advantage was taken of this difference inheight to secure light. In the space between theupper and lower roofing windows with stone mulHonswere inserted, through whichthe light filtered. The court (j)was square, surrounded b
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fisr. -Plan of temple of Hathor,Deir el Medineh. of the building by a 86 RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE. four campaniform columns 23 feet in height ; the sideaisles have only two lotiform columns 18 feet central portion is 5 feet higher than the sideaisles. Advantage was taken of this difference inheight to secure light. In the space between theupper and lower roofing windows with stone mulHonswere inserted, through whichthe light filtered. The court (j)was square, surrounded by adouble colonnade. The entranceto this hall was by four lateralposterns, and by an immensegateway between two quad-rangular towers, with slopingfronts. This pylon (k) measures. @ @ o 000 Q @ O Q Q Q O ® 0 0 © ® / @ O Q Q OQ) O © © 0 10; feet in lensrth, feet width, and 60 feet in height. Itcontains no chamber, but anarrow staircase, which leadsstraight to the lintel of the ^^^^M g^^^^^^^y^ ^<^ from there to the^-^^?^^^ summit of the two towers. The^^•/i^r^^^^V^ ^T^^^ faces of these towers are lined of Khonsu, Karnak. with four angulated grooves upto a third of their height, corresponding with as manysquare holes worked through the block of these grooves great wooden masts were placed,made of beams jointed into each other, strengthenedat intervals by a species of clasp, and fastened bywooden clutches fixed in the square holes. Nearthe top fluttered pennants of various colours (fig. 84).Such was the temple of Khonsu, and similar to it THE GREAT TKMILES. 87 in the main lines were the majority of the greatertemples of the Theban and Ptolemaic periods : Luxor,the Ramesseum, Medinet Habu, Phila-, Edfu, Den-derah. Half in ruins as they are, t
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