Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. 86.—Crypts in the thickness of the walls round the sanctuaryat Denderah. they differ from each other. Thus equipped thebuilding sufficed for all the requirements of the it was enlarged, as a rule neither the sanctuarynor the chambers surrounding it were altered, but 90 RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE. the outlying parts, the courts, hypostylc halls, andpylons. Nothing serves better than the history ofthe temple of Amon at Thebes to illustrate the pro-ceedings of the Egypti
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. 86.—Crypts in the thickness of the walls round the sanctuaryat Denderah. they differ from each other. Thus equipped thebuilding sufficed for all the requirements of the it was enlarged, as a rule neither the sanctuarynor the chambers surrounding it were altered, but 90 RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE. the outlying parts, the courts, hypostylc halls, andpylons. Nothing serves better than the history ofthe temple of Amon at Thebes to illustrate the pro-ceedings of the Egyptians under such was founded by Senusert (Usertesen) I., probablyon the site of a yet earlier temple. Both Amen-. Fig. 87.—The pronaos of Edfu, as seen from the top of the eastern pylon, emhat II. and Amenemhat III. did some work there,and the Pharaohs of the Thirteenth and Four-teenth Dynasties presented statues and tables ofofferings. In the seventeenth century before our erait was still intact, when Thothmes I., enriched as hewas by foreign conquest, resolved to transform it. THE TEMPLE OF KARNAK. In front of the temple, as it then existed, he firstadded two halls, preceded by a court and flanked byseparate chapels; then three pylons at intervals, onebehind the other. The whole presented the appear-ance of a rectangle placed crossways against anotherof vast dimensions. Thothmes II. and Ilatshepsutcovered the walls built bytheir father with bas-reliefs,but added little to his , however, in orderto place her obelisks betweentwo of the pylons, brokedown part of the southernwall and destroyed sixteen ofthe columns that stood III. began by alter-ing certain parts, wh
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