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PDFCHAPTER II.
Religious architecture.
Sec. 1. Materials;
principles of construction:—Materials
of Temples—
Foundations of Temples—Sizes
of Blocks—Mortars—Mode of hoisting
Blocks—Defective
Masonry—Walls—Pavements—Vaultings—Supports—
Pillars and Columns—Capitals—Campaniform
Capitals—Lotus-bud
Capitals—Hathor-headed
Capitals
Sec. 2. Temples:—Temples of the Sphinx—Temples of Elephantine—Temple at El Kab—Temple of Khonsu—Arrangement of Temples—Levels—Crypts— Temple of Karnak—Temple of Luxor—Philae—The Speos, or Rock-cut Temple—Speos of Horemheb—Rock-cut Temples of Abu Simbel—Temple of Deir el Bahari—Temple of Abydos—Sphinxes—Crio-sphinxes
Sec. 3. Decoration:—Principles
of Decoration—The Temple a Symbolic
Representation of the World—Decoration
of Parts nearest the Ground—
Dadoes—Bases of
Columns—Decoration of Ceilings—Decoration
of
Architraves—Decoration
of Wall-surfaces—Magic Virtues of Decoration
—Decoration of
Pylons—Statues—Obelisks—Libation-tables—Altars—
Shrines—Sacred
Boats—Moving Statues of Deities
CHAPTER III.
Tombs.
Sec. 1. Mastabas:—Construction
of the Mastaba—The Door of the Living,
and the Door of the Dead—The
Chapel—Wall Decorations—The Double
and
his Needs—The Serdab—Ka
Statues—The Sepulchral Chamber
Sec. 2. Pyramids:—Plan of the Pyramid comprises three leading features of the Mastaba—Materials of Pyramids—Orientation—Pyramid of Khufu— Pyramids of Khafra and Menkara—Step Pyramid of Sakkarah—Pyramid of Unas—Decoration of Pyramid of Unas—Group of Dashur—Pyramid of Medum
Sec. 3. Tombs of the Theban empire; the rock-cut tombs:—Pyramid-mastabas of Abydos—Pyramid-mastabas of Drah Abu’l Neggah—Rock-cut Tombs of Beni Hasan and Syene—Rock-cut Tombs of Siut—Wall-decoration of Theban Catacombs—Tombs of the Kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty at Thebes—Valley of the Tombs of the Kings—Royal Catacombs—Tomb of Seti I.—Wall-decorations of Royal Catacombs—Funerary Furniture of Catacombs—Ushabtiu—Amulets—Common Graves of the Poor
CHAPTER IV.
Painting and sculpture.
