Hall Section of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel

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This image shows how the middle passage is made more imposing by the arrangement of elevating the columns in the middle, and how at the same time a means is contrived of lighting the whole hall by the raised side-lights.

Keywords

cross section, Egyptian architecture, rock temple, entrance hall, ipsamboul, abu simbel, nubian monument, unesco world heritage site, archaeological site

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Egyptian Architecture

Source

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

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