led. By means of coils 6o A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. in the groove at the side the cyhnder could be made to revolve,and the curtain would thus be easily drawn up and down. Thesecurious forms are thus at once accounted for if we refer them tothe wooden structures which were once plentiful… … Fig. 35.—Door of a tomb at Sakkarah ; drawn by Bourgoin. materials? It could not revolve, and the deep lateral grooves,which have such an obvious use in a wooden building, would bepurposeless. We find these features repeated in a rectangular stele from thefourth dynasty, which we reproduce on page…
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