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 90
Fig. 63. — Sixteen-sided pillars, Karnak. fifteen, or twenty sides, or verging on a perfect circle.The pillars of the portico of the temple of Osiris atAbydos end the series. Here the main part of thepillar presents a curvilinear section scarcely brokenby the plain band at the top and bottom which… … flutings are divided by four fillets into four groups of five (fig. 64). The polygonal pillar has always a broad, low disc-shaped plinth. At El Kab it has a Hathor head ^ projecting from the face of the pillar near the top (fig. 65), but almost everywhere else it ends in a simple square abacus…
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