Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in Egypt. For the use of students and travellers (1914)
Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916, Johns, Agnes Sophia Griffith, 1859- · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons; London, H. Grevel and Co. · leaf 85
ould allow the vertical joints to comeimmediately over each other for two or three courses.When utilising materials from ruined edifices hewould not trouble to work them into shape ; roundshafts of older columns were thus mixed with rect-angular blocks in the walls of the Ramesseum. ^ - ^The main… … Fig- 57-—Templewall with cornice. imperfections of the original work. The walls rarely end abruptly, they are bordered by a torus round which a sculptured ribbon is entwined, and crownedeither with the splayed cornicesurmounted by a flat band (fig. 57),or, as at Semneh, by a squarecornice, or, as…
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