. A history of art in ancient Egypt . of the first artisticnecessities of our time. Still more surprising than the eccentricity of Its plan, are thepeculiar arrangements which are to be found In the interior ofthis temple. As at Medinet-Abou and the Ramesseum, thereare two courts, each preceded by a pylon. After these comesthe pronaos. The courts differ from those at Thebes in havingno peristyles or colonnades. The only thing of the kind is a rowof square pillars standing before the inner wall of the second court(see plan). This is a poor equivalent for the majestic colonnadesand files of cary
. A history of art in ancient Egypt . of the first artisticnecessities of our time. Still more surprising than the eccentricity of Its plan, are thepeculiar arrangements which are to be found In the interior ofthis temple. As at Medinet-Abou and the Ramesseum, thereare two courts, each preceded by a pylon. After these comesthe pronaos. The courts differ from those at Thebes in havingno peristyles or colonnades. The only thing of the kind is a rowof square pillars standing before the inner wall of the second court(see plan). This is a poor equivalent for the majestic colonnadesand files of caryatides which we have hitherto encountered. The suppression of the portico has a great effect upon theappearance of these two courts. It deprives them of the richshadows cast by the long colonnades and their roofs of theTheban temples, and the long walls must have seemed rather coldand monotonous in spite of the bas-reliefs and paintings whichcovered them. Their absence, however, is not allowed to affectthe general lines of the ;5 Ifa^F^ ooooooooooo OOOOOOOOOOG ooooooooooo ? ? ? ? a f OOGOOOOOQG GOOO0OOOOO We have given neither an elevationnor a section of the temple at Abydos,because neither the one nor the otherwas to be had. The building washardly known until Mariette freed itfrom the debris with which it was en-gulphed. He, too, studied rather asan egyptologist than as an architect,and was content with making known itsinternal arrangements by a plan. Thisplan does not appear to be minutelyexact. A little farther on we shall haveto speak of a peculiarity which existsat Abydos, but which is not hinted atin the adjoining plan; some of thecolumns are coupled in the first hypo-style hall. We take this fact from theDescription^ where the measurementsare given in a fashion which forbids alldoubt of their fidelity. *
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