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 (1883)
Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 484
^ 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 less-gigantic dimensions, 42 feet 5 inches in height, and 28 feet in cir-cumference, distributed in seven lines, on either… … COLUMNS OF KARNAC.(Over 4000 years old.) im 464 KARNAC AND BAALBEC. statues on the same scale. In the middle of the second courtthere were four obeHsks of granite of a finished workmanship,three of which are still standing. They stood before the sanctu-ary, built all of granite, and covered with…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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