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A history of art in ancient Egypt (1883)

Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 440

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institute call the GreatSouthern Temple. In the background of our illustration (Fig. 208) the hypostylehall and the southern pylons of the Great Temple are seen. ^ Tov Se ■Kpova.uv Trap iKaTtpoi irpoKurai Tii Xey(>/j.aa Trrcprr Ictti oe raiTa Icrovtf/T] TU)raio Tii)0 Sio, KaT (ipp^as fxh… … The Temple under the New Empire. 351 temples which have been measured. In every instance the sidesof the peristylar court form a rectangular parallelogram. It must,apparently, have been in a Ptolemaic temple that Strabo noticedthese converging sides, and even then he was mistaken in sup-posing such…

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