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Identifier: struggleofnation00maspuoft (find matches)
Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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bymeans of two doors placedin the southern wall, with ahypostyle hall of greaterwidth than depth, dividedby its pillars into a nave andtwo aisles. The four columnsof the nave are twenty-threefeet in height, and havebell-shaped capitals, whilethose of the aisles, two on either side, are eighteen feet high, and are crownedwith lotiform capitals. The roof of the nave was thus five feet higher thanthose of the aisles, and in the clear storey thus formed, stone gratings, similarto those in the temple of Amon, admitted light to the building. The court-yard, surrounded by a fine colonnade of two rows of columns, was square, andwas entered by four side posterns in addition to the open gateway at the endplaced between two quadrangular towers. This pylon measures 104 feet inlength, and is 32 feet 6 inches wide, by 58 feet high. It contains no internalchambers, but merely a narrow staircase which leads to the top of the door-way, and thence to the summit of the towers. Four long angular grooves
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THE COURT OP THE TEMPLE OP KHONSO. Drawn by Fauoher-Gudin, from a photograph by Beato. THE TEMPLE OF KHONSU. 555 run up the ftifade of the towers to a height of about twenty feet from theground, and are in the same line with a simihir number of square holeswhich pierce the thickness of the building higher up. In these grooveswere placed Venetian masts, made of poles spliced together and held in theirplace by means of hooksand wooden stays whichprojected from the fourholes; these masts wereto carry at their topspennons of various colours.Such was the temple ofKhonsvi, and the majorityof the great Theban build-ings—at Luxor, Qurneli,the Eamesseum, or Medi-net-Habu—were constructedon similar lines. Evenin their half-ruined con-dition there is somethinsroppressive and uncanny intheir appearance. The godsloved to shroud themselvesin mystery, and, therefore,the plan of the buildingwas so arranged as torender the transition almostimperceptible from theblinding sunlight outside to the dar

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