A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 451
dchecked local warfare, and after the establish-ment of a national pantheon had placed thetemples of the gods beyond frequent dangerfrom attack. As a typical plan of an Egyptian temple wemay take that of the south temple at Karnak.Often, as in this instance, a great ceremonialgateway (see Vol. I.,… … Temple, Fig. 2: that of Neptune at P.estum; Section 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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