The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 51
at Philse. 28 EGYPT A XI) NUBIA. lars in gold per year. Hence the material require-ment was not wanting for architecture, and templesbegan to rear their sculptured beauty on every hand. Under the Ptolemaic rule temples differed quitematerially from the palaces of worship of the Thebankings. The… … FiG. 14.—Temple at Denderah. ical, and each shrine asserts itself frankly as the houseof a god. A portico often takes the place of the hypostylehall, and is lighted from the front over a partitionplaced between the columns as at Denderah (Fig. 14). A peristyle court and richly sculptured…
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