not the only methods oflighting their temples to which the Egyptians had recourse.They were helped in their work, or, in the case of very smallchambers, replaced, by oblique or vertical openings contrivedin the roof itself. These oblique holes are found in the superiorangles of the hypostyle hall… … C C Fig. 15S.—Method of lighting in one of th€ inner halls of Karnak. Compiled from the plans and elevations of the Description, narrow openings were laboriously cut in its ceiling. One of theinner chambers of the Temple of Khons is feebly lighted byvertical holes cut through the slabs of the roof…
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