A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 451
checked local warfare, and after the establish-ment of a national pantheon had placed thetemples of the gods beyond frequent dangerfrom attack. As a typical jdan of an Egyptian teuqjle wemay take that of the south tenqile at Karnak.Often, as in this instance, a great ceveumnialgateway (see Vol. I.,… … THAT OF Neptune at P-esthm; Section showing T\ DIVIDING NaoS. ii:ii:i> CuLUXNADES 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 protection…
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