Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916, Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford, 1831-1892 · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons; London, H. Grevel & Company · leaf 30
EGYPTIAN ARCHEOLOGY. 14 rest of the building (fig. 17). The façade is often decorated with slender colonnettes of painted wood, which bear no weight, and merely serve to lighten the somewhat severe aspect of the exterior. Of the in- ternal arrangements, we know but little. As in the middle-class… … Fig. 14. — Perspective view of the Palace ot Aï. rooms must have been nearly as large as those still in use in the Arab houses of modern Egypt. The decora- tion of walls and ceilings in no wise resembled such scenes or designs as we find in the tombs. The panels were whitewashed or colourwashed,…
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