in Egypt but in the whole world ; andin the remote century which witnessed its construction men maynot yet have learnt to fill up the angles left in their masonry, theymay have been quite satisfied to leave their work in a conditionwhich to us seems imperfect. The Germans have evolved a complicated… … Fig. 135.—The Stepped Pyramid ; restored from the measurements of Perring. of representations of such a pyramid in different stages of com-pletion (Figs. 136 to 142). A commencement was made byerecting a very narrow and perpendicular pyramid crowned by apyramidion, like a stumpy obelisk (Fig. 136).…
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