The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 44
PLATE II.—Ruins at Karnak. THE SPEA. IP SAMBO UL. 21 tion. They were built by Rhameses the Great, setlike jewels in a matrix of rock, and dedicated to Raand Athor, the Phoebus and Aphrodite of Egypt. The Great Temple is the more important of thetwo. When first discovered by Belzoni it was sochoked… … Fig. 12.—Temple of Ipsamboul. vertically by four colossi of the king, each sixty-onefeet in height, seated on thrones) and surmounted bya cornice crested with sitting monkeys—the symbolsof Thoth, god of the intellect. In the great hall of assembly (Fig. 12) are piersembossed with great statues of…
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