The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 42
othersanctuaries, built for royalty alone. KARNAK. THE SANCTUARIES. 19 In one the kingly founder worshipped the shadesof his ancestors ; in another he made offerings to thegods on an altar of red granite (a ceremonial insti-tuted in the twenty-fifth year of his reign, on the oc-casion of certain… … Fig. 11.—Plan of Hypostyle hall at Karnak. Egypt, the richest of Africa, and to-day, alas! themost pillaged and despoiled of all (Plate II). Of the spca or grotto fanes of Nubia, the greatand small temples of Ipsamboul challenge most atten-
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