Museum of antiquity : a description of ancient life : the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, T. L · New York : Standard Pub. House · leaf 490
feet by 329 feet, supported by a central avenue of twelvemassive columns, 62 feet high (without the plinth or abacus), and36 feet in circumference; besides 122 of smaller, or, rather lessgigantic dimensions, 42 feet 5 inches in height, and 28 feet in cir-cumference, distributed in seven lines, on… … i COLUMNS OF KARNAC. {Over 4000 years old.) 46:. 464 KARNAC AND BAALBEC. statues on the same scale. In the middle of the second courtthere were tour obelisks of granite of a finished workmanship,three of which are still standing. They stood before the sanctu-ary, built all of granite, and covered…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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