Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 57
Longdisused types of capital were revived and others greatlyelaborated ; and the wall-reliefs were arranged in bandsand panels with a regularity and symmetry rather Greekthan Egyptian. AKCHITECTURAL DETAILS. With the exception of a fewpurely utilitarian vaulted structures, all Egyptian… … employed. Piers and columns sustained the roofs of suchchambers as were too wide for single lintels, and produced,in halls like those of Karnak, of the Ramesseum, or ofDenderah, a stupendous effect by their height, massiveness, number, and colored decoration. Thesimplest piers were plain…
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