Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 · New York, Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 121
are form deduced from the mastaba, in UpperEgypt, and evenin Abydos, theypreferred the round-ed summit whichrecalled the vaults ofthe hypogea. Otherpoints on whicharchitects were agreed were thenumber and thevariety of the sup-ports. In the Mem-phite burial groundsthere are scarcelymore than two… … 1S7. —PAINTKI) INTERIOR OF THE TOMH OF UHETEP (Museum, Cairo). (Phot. E. Brugsdi.) THE FIRST THEBAN AGE prism, and by rejDcating the process on this, they obtained a f)rism of sixteen facets; these polygonal shafts, imbedded in aow base rounded to a disc,
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