Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 93
at Kamak. (^I.) almost defeated when by his personal valour he turned thetide of the battle and entirely routed the Khita (Fig. 97).The most famous building of his time is the rock-hewn 72 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. temple, the Great Temple, that he built and dedicatedto Amen, Ptah, and Harmachis, which… … Fig. 97.—The Rout of the Khita ; Eg^ptians to the left, the Khita to the right. (M-) the pschent on the head measures sixty-five feet; theyare the largest statues in Egypt, and the workmanship iscareful in finish. Over the entrance is carved in relief onthe rock a colossal figure of the god Ra, and…
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