The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . THE COLONNADE BUILT BT THUTMOSIS IH. 556 TEE CLOSE OF TEE TEEBAN KAF\NA1C VNDEt^ THE F^AMESSIDES. Sule SoMtlreJ of Khonsii is not more than fivefeet three inches, but it is com-bined with a still more considerablelowering of the height of the the pylon to the wall at thefurther end the height decreases aswe go on; the peristyle is morelofty than the hypostyle hall, thisagain is higher than the sanctuaryand the hall of columns, and thechamber beyond it drops still furtherin altitude.^ Karnak is an exception to thisrule
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . THE COLONNADE BUILT BT THUTMOSIS IH. 556 TEE CLOSE OF TEE TEEBAN KAF\NA1C VNDEt^ THE F^AMESSIDES. Sule SoMtlreJ of Khonsii is not more than fivefeet three inches, but it is com-bined with a still more considerablelowering of the height of the the pylon to the wall at thefurther end the height decreases aswe go on; the peristyle is morelofty than the hypostyle hall, thisagain is higher than the sanctuaryand the hall of columns, and thechamber beyond it drops still furtherin altitude.^ Karnak is an exception to thisrule; this temple had in the courseof centuries undergone so manyrestorations and additions, that itformed a collection of buildingsrather than a single edifice. Itmight have been regarded, as earlyas the close of the Theban empire,as a hind of museum, in whichevery century and every period ofart, from the XIl dynasty down-wards, had left its distinctive the resources of architecturehad been brought into requisi-tion during this period to vary,at the will of each sovereign,the arrangement and the generaleffect of the co
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