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Identifier: cu31924091767503 (find matches)
Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 McClure, M. L., d. 1918
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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proper; even Napata owed to his munificence themost beautiful portions of its temples. The temple ofAmon, and subsequently that of Mut, were enlarged byhim ; and he decorated their ancient halls with bas-reliefs,representing himself, accompanied by his mother and hiswife, in attitudes of adoration before the deity. The styleof the carving is very good, and the hieroglyphics wouldnot disgrace the walls of the Theban temples. The ^ These columns have been looked upon as triumphal pillars, designed tosupport statues or divine emblems. Mariette thinks that they supported an edifice in the architectural style of the kiosk at Philse and the smallhypsethral temple on the roof of Denderah. I am of opinion that thearchitect intended to make a hypostyle hall, but that when the columns wereerected, he perceived that the great width of the aisle they formed wouldrender the strength of the roof very doubtful, and so renounced the executionof his first design. 142 THE POWER OP ASSYRIA AT ITS ZENITH
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THE COLUMiT OF TAHAEQA, AT KAENAK. Ethiopian sculptors and painters scrupulously followed thetraditions of the mother-country, and only a few insignificant 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Beato, BUILDINGS OP TAHARQA IN ETHIOPIA 143 details of ethnic type or costume enable us to detect aslight difference between their works and those of pureEgyptian art. At the other extremity of Napata, on thewestern side of the Holy Mountain, Taharqa excavated in

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