Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. 61. —Ha-thor pillar,Abu Simbel. PILLARS. 6l The sides are known as the processionafrequently covered withpictures or hieroglyphicjascriptions, and theprincipal face of thepillar has a specialscheme of are stems oflotus or papyrus on thepillar-steke of Karnak,a Hathor head sur-mounted by the sistrumof the goddess at thesmaller speos of AbuSimbel (fig. 6i), astanding figure ofOsiris in the first courtat Medinet Habu, andof Bes at Denderahand Gebel Barkal. AtK
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. 61. —Ha-thor pillar,Abu Simbel. PILLARS. 6l The sides are known as the processionafrequently covered withpictures or hieroglyphicjascriptions, and theprincipal face of thepillar has a specialscheme of are stems oflotus or papyrus on thepillar-steke of Karnak,a Hathor head sur-mounted by the sistrumof the goddess at thesmaller speos of AbuSimbel (fig. 6i), astanding figure ofOsiris in the first courtat Medinet Habu, andof Bes at Denderahand Gebel Barkal. AtKarnak, in the chapelthat was probably con-structed for Horcmhebfrom the ruins of asanctuary of Amen-hotep II. and III., thepillar is capped by acornice, separated fromthe architrave by ashallow abacus (fig, 62).By cutting away thefour edges the pillar is rendered octagonal and by. Fig. 62. -Pillar of Amenbotep 111.,Karnak. 62 RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE. again removing the eight edges it becomes sixteen-sided. Some pillars in the tombs of Assuan andBeni Hasan are of this type, as well as in theprocessional hall of Karnak (fig. 6^^) and in thefunerary temples of Deir el Bahari. Besides the types thus regularly evolved there areothers of abnormal derivation, pillars with six, twelve, rni^msz^mm
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