Front View of the Colossal Statue on a Pier at the Luxor Temple

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Instead of columns, square piers are not infrequently introduced in the tombs. In structural buildings they only occur in connection with colossal statues; in which case the pier supports the roof, and the statue, while connected with the pier at the back, has its head free, without supporting anything.

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Egyptian architecture, colossal statue, big statue, square piers, palace at luxor temple

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Egyptian Architecture

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A. Rosengarten, W. Collett-Sandars A Handbook of Architectural Styles (New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895)

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