Horton, Caroline W · New York, Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, The Riverside press · leaf 55
place are there more perfect ex-amples of these orders found than among the ruins ofKarnak, a temple belonging to the city of Thebes.Before speaking further of this magnificent ruin, itwill be well, perhaps, to remember that in the lateras in the earlier Egyptian architecture, the pyra-midal form… … NAVE Ol IHL GKLAl HAIL Ai KARN Ak Egyptian Architecture. 43 towers or pyramids, resting on a quadrangular base,and flanking the gateway on either side ; the obe-lisks were but modifications of this form, and thetemple walls, following the universal model, slopedgradually inwards. The columns were…
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