T—— -^-—^; ■ fpfcii^ ^^ -■-—-- nmi %-mmi … Fig. 70.—Osiride pillar. to these piers, because the statues do not help to support the massabove, they are merely affixed to the pier which actually performsthat office. The Ethiopian architects borrowed the motive of these osiridepillars. They introduced into colonnaded buildings, copied…
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![An illustration from Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'Égypte antique / publié sous les auspices de S.A. Abbas II Helmi par la direction générale du Service des antiquités [de l'Égypte] ; par J. de Morgan, U. Bouriant, G. Legrain, G. Jéquier, A. Barsanti (1894)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cataloguedesmonu22egyp-124-284.webp)
