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APPENDIX B
stone connecting wall, with a fragment of the recessed panel of incised
scenes, (g) the base of the south column let into the rock and now half
cut away to make room for the intrusive brick chamber, (h) a trench for
the blocks of the connecting wall, (i) part of the rock base of the pilaster.
These materials admit, no doubt, of an interrupted portico which
does not continue in front of the doorway, the architraves returning from
the two central columns to the fagade. But there is no example of this
prior to the tombs of El Amarna.1 It would have distinctly weakened
the structure, and is not likely to have been adopted. A fragment found
suggests that there was a rounded parapet on top of the cornice, to hide
the ends of the roofing slabs, and some of the cornice blocks seem to need
this counterpoise to keep them from overbalancing. The whole of the
portico, except the pilasters, was carried out in sandstone, wooden keys
being used to tie the blocks together. Its height has been fixed by that
of the stelae, and by the shelf above mentioned. Ten centimeters or so
might be added to it to admit of a rather higher cornice to the stelae,
but the height of the drum of the column found is, without the abacus,
just one third of the shaft, and this is some support for the dimensions
adopted in the plan on quite other grounds.
Pilasters. The need of shortening the span, as well as the example
of Thothmes III at Medinet Habu,2 justifies the addition of pilasters at the
ends of the colonnade. To harmonize with the severity of the style they
would be plain, not corniced as at El Amarna. But on the inside (north)
face there seems to have been decoration. I assign, viz., to this position
on the south pilaster a large limestone block which was found at this
point. It is a corner piece, showing on one face a deeply incised kneeling
figure, of which only the thigh is preserved from the knee to the body.
On the blank side there is a slight turn, showing that a stone had been
built against it there, with a batter which is that of the buttress, being
a little steeper than that of the fagade.3 The figure must have occupied
1 Davies, El Amarna, V, Pis. VIII, XVI, and shown outside a magazine in I, PI. XXXII.
2Jequier, UArchitecture, Pis. 42-44-
!Cf. PL LXXV.
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stone connecting wall, with a fragment of the recessed panel of incised
scenes, (g) the base of the south column let into the rock and now half
cut away to make room for the intrusive brick chamber, (h) a trench for
the blocks of the connecting wall, (i) part of the rock base of the pilaster.
These materials admit, no doubt, of an interrupted portico which
does not continue in front of the doorway, the architraves returning from
the two central columns to the fagade. But there is no example of this
prior to the tombs of El Amarna.1 It would have distinctly weakened
the structure, and is not likely to have been adopted. A fragment found
suggests that there was a rounded parapet on top of the cornice, to hide
the ends of the roofing slabs, and some of the cornice blocks seem to need
this counterpoise to keep them from overbalancing. The whole of the
portico, except the pilasters, was carried out in sandstone, wooden keys
being used to tie the blocks together. Its height has been fixed by that
of the stelae, and by the shelf above mentioned. Ten centimeters or so
might be added to it to admit of a rather higher cornice to the stelae,
but the height of the drum of the column found is, without the abacus,
just one third of the shaft, and this is some support for the dimensions
adopted in the plan on quite other grounds.
Pilasters. The need of shortening the span, as well as the example
of Thothmes III at Medinet Habu,2 justifies the addition of pilasters at the
ends of the colonnade. To harmonize with the severity of the style they
would be plain, not corniced as at El Amarna. But on the inside (north)
face there seems to have been decoration. I assign, viz., to this position
on the south pilaster a large limestone block which was found at this
point. It is a corner piece, showing on one face a deeply incised kneeling
figure, of which only the thigh is preserved from the knee to the body.
On the blank side there is a slight turn, showing that a stone had been
built against it there, with a batter which is that of the buttress, being
a little steeper than that of the fagade.3 The figure must have occupied
1 Davies, El Amarna, V, Pis. VIII, XVI, and shown outside a magazine in I, PI. XXXII.
2Jequier, UArchitecture, Pis. 42-44-
!Cf. PL LXXV.
54