The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . allmeasures one hundredand sixty - two feet inlength, by three hundredand twenty - five inbreadth. A row of twelvecolumns, the largest everplaced inside a building,runsupthe centre, havingcapitals in the form ofinverted bells. Onehundred and twenty-twocolumns with lotiformcapitals fill the aisles, inrows of nine each. The roof of the central bay is seventy-four feet above theground, and the cornice of the two towers rises sixty-three feet higher. Thebuilding was dimly lighted from the roof of the central colonnade by meansof stone grati
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . allmeasures one hundredand sixty - two feet inlength, by three hundredand twenty - five inbreadth. A row of twelvecolumns, the largest everplaced inside a building,runsupthe centre, havingcapitals in the form ofinverted bells. Onehundred and twenty-twocolumns with lotiformcapitals fill the aisles, inrows of nine each. The roof of the central bay is seventy-four feet above theground, and the cornice of the two towers rises sixty-three feet higher. Thebuilding was dimly lighted from the roof of the central colonnade by meansof stone gratings, through which the air and the suns rays entered daylight, as it penetrated into the hall, was rendered more and moreobscure by the rows of columns; indeed, at the further end a perpetual twilightmust have reigned, pierced by narrow shafts of light falling from the ventilationholes which were placed at intervals in the roof. The whole building now liesopen to the sky, and the sunshine which floods it, pitilessly reveals the mutilations. AJJ AVENUE OP ONE OF THE AISLES OF THE HYPOSTYLE KARNAK. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Beato. Cf. the general view of the hypostylehall at the heading to the present chapter, p. 341. TEE JJYFOSTYLE HALLS OF KARNAK AND LUXOR. :57;) wliich it has suffered in the course of ages; but the general eifect, though lessmysterious, is none the less overwhelming. It is the only monument in vvhiclithe first coup duiil surpasses the expectations of tlie spectator instead of dis-appointing him. Thesize is immense, and werealise its immensitythe more fully as wesearch our memory invain to find anythingwith which to compareit. Seti may have en-tertained tlie project ofbuilding a replica of thishall in Southern III. had leftI lis temple at Luxorunfinished. The sanc-tuaiy and its surround-ing buildings were usedfor purposes of worship,but the court of thecustomary pylon waswanting, and merely athin wall co
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