A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 444
hecked local warfare, and after the establish-ment of a national pantheon had jjlaced thetemples of the gods beyond frequent dangerfrom attack. As a typical plan of an Egyj)tian temple wemay take that of the south temple at Kaniak.Often, as in this instance, a great ceremonialgateway (see Vol. I.,… … Temple, Fig. 2: that or Nkptune at P.estum; SRrTiON showing Two Sioried Colonnades DIVIDING NAOS. The temple is common to religions whichhave reached a certain stage of advancement,having generally passed beyond the worship ofnatural objects and reached a point at which animage of the god needs the…
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