The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 41
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… … m. Fig. io.—Section of Hypostyle hall al Karnak. and colossi of the king), and together proceeding tothe temple proper. As to the great temple itself, it was simply agigantic mosaic of propyla^a, peristyles, chapels,sanctuaries, and hypostyle halls, with scores onscores of minor apartments jewelled…
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