angular figures of various heiglits, is used as aterminal eleinent. Neither in the small number of pyramidswhich have come down to us comparatively intact, nor in thosewhich are represented in reliefs, is there the smallest sign of a trun-cated summit or of any platform which could by any… … Fig. 154.—Pyiamidion : l.ouvie. connection with the worship of the sun. The principal figure, says M. de Rouge, is generally shown in a posture of adoration, with his face turned to the sun. On his left hand is the invocation to the rising, and on his rio-ht that to the settinsf sun. These…
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