The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 40
e masterpiece of Thebes,which had an area of fifty-nine thousand live hundredsquare feet. Figs. 10 and n show the general arrangement anddistribution of the apartmenl as well as the scheme oflighting by making the middle row of columns higher KARNAK. THE CLERESTORY. 17 than those of the wings,… … Fig. 9.—Hall of Rhameses II restored. interrupted spaces; its one hundred and fifty col-umns, eight to eleven feet in diameter, floweringinto lotuses at the top and gay with Oriental col-our, must have been the grandest and most superbantechamber of antiquity. It is the last building3 i8 EGYPT AND…
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