A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 497
. Middle Empire. The remains of this ])c-riod are less imi)osing, but full of interest fortheir architectural forms. Fragments of a tem-])le at Bubastis show the clustered lotus col-umn, common also in the rock tombs of theperiod, .uid derived ]irolialily from prehistoricwooden prototyi)es. The… … ECiYlT. Kaniak, aiiumt; the ruins of ancient. Tliebes.Iylmi u( the time cif Kanises II, covered witlicoiicavo-ooiivcx reliefs wliieli were once elaborately \K(MnTKCTri!K OV painteit. K^ptian mural arcliiteoture. as con-trasted with that which is mainly columnar, iswell n^presented by this gateway.…
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