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Survey of the Ancient World
Section 9. The Higher Life of the Empire
> and its Fall
75. Temple The wealth which the Pharaohs captured in Asia and NuMg
architecture
during the Empire brought them power and magnificence ufl'
known to the world before. All this was especially shown in theif
vast and splendid buildings. A new period in the history of art
Fig. 28. Restoration of the Great Hall of Karnak, AN'
cient Thebes — Largest Building of the Egyptian EmpiRe
With the wealth taken in Asia the Egyptian conquerors of the Empire
enabled their architects to build the greatest colonnaded hall ever
erected by man. It is three hundred and thirty-eight feet wide and one
hundred and seventy feet deep, furnishing a floor area about equal to tha'
of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, although this is only a single
room of the temple. There are one hundred and thirty-six columns i"1
sixteen rows. The nave (three central aisles) is seventy-nine feet high
and contains twelve columns in two rows, which the architects have
made much higher than the rest, in order to insert lofty windows ol"
each side. These are called clerestory windows. ' In this form the
clerestory passed over to Europe in the type of building called a basilic
(§ 458, and Fig. m, D and E), finally adopted as an early form f°r
Christian churches. See Fig. 123
and architecture began. The temple of Karnak, which we have
visited, contains the greatest colonnaded hall ever erected by
man. The columns of the central aisle (Fig. 28) are sixty-nine
feet high. The vast capital forming the summit of each colunifl
Survey of the Ancient World
Section 9. The Higher Life of the Empire
> and its Fall
75. Temple The wealth which the Pharaohs captured in Asia and NuMg
architecture
during the Empire brought them power and magnificence ufl'
known to the world before. All this was especially shown in theif
vast and splendid buildings. A new period in the history of art
Fig. 28. Restoration of the Great Hall of Karnak, AN'
cient Thebes — Largest Building of the Egyptian EmpiRe
With the wealth taken in Asia the Egyptian conquerors of the Empire
enabled their architects to build the greatest colonnaded hall ever
erected by man. It is three hundred and thirty-eight feet wide and one
hundred and seventy feet deep, furnishing a floor area about equal to tha'
of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, although this is only a single
room of the temple. There are one hundred and thirty-six columns i"1
sixteen rows. The nave (three central aisles) is seventy-nine feet high
and contains twelve columns in two rows, which the architects have
made much higher than the rest, in order to insert lofty windows ol"
each side. These are called clerestory windows. ' In this form the
clerestory passed over to Europe in the type of building called a basilic
(§ 458, and Fig. m, D and E), finally adopted as an early form f°r
Christian churches. See Fig. 123
and architecture began. The temple of Karnak, which we have
visited, contains the greatest colonnaded hall ever erected by
man. The columns of the central aisle (Fig. 28) are sixty-nine
feet high. The vast capital forming the summit of each colunifl