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EGYPT AND ITS MONUMENTS.
where there are some six, hundred feet in length, and half
that distance in breadth, supported by massive columns twelve
feet in diameter, and sixty-six feet high, placed at regular in
tervals throughout the area of the apartment. The walls,
pillars, &c, are covered with colossal sculptures of deities,
kings, priests, religious processions, &c., while on the walls
similar scenes are delineated in lively paintings. Some idea
may be formed of part of the interior of one of these halls by
the frontispiece to this volume.
In the representations of triumphs, the costume, and pecu-
liarities of color and feature, among the captives of different
nations, are carefully preserved, and often render essential aid
in deciphering the sculptured history of the event commemo-
rated. Of this we shall have occasion to speak more particu-
larly hereafter. In almost all the representations of conquests,
the king is represented as marching in triumph to the temple,
and dragging long lines of captives, fastened by the neck, and
EGYPT AND ITS MONUMENTS.
where there are some six, hundred feet in length, and half
that distance in breadth, supported by massive columns twelve
feet in diameter, and sixty-six feet high, placed at regular in
tervals throughout the area of the apartment. The walls,
pillars, &c, are covered with colossal sculptures of deities,
kings, priests, religious processions, &c., while on the walls
similar scenes are delineated in lively paintings. Some idea
may be formed of part of the interior of one of these halls by
the frontispiece to this volume.
In the representations of triumphs, the costume, and pecu-
liarities of color and feature, among the captives of different
nations, are carefully preserved, and often render essential aid
in deciphering the sculptured history of the event commemo-
rated. Of this we shall have occasion to speak more particu-
larly hereafter. In almost all the representations of conquests,
the king is represented as marching in triumph to the temple,
and dragging long lines of captives, fastened by the neck, and