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avenues; and sometimes a large reservoir cased with stone,
having a spacious douhle flight of steps leading down to it,
afforded a plentiful supply of
water for the use of the temple,
for watering the trees, sprinkling
the walks, aud other purposes.

One or two courts were after-
wards added before the portico,
as the temple increased in size,
and two massive pyramidal towers
were placed on either side of the
p\j]on at the entrance of each
court; the avenue of sphinxes con-
necting it as before to the outer
gate of the great enclosure (wood-
cut 109, fig. 8). An obelisk also stood before the outer towers on
each side of the entrance; and statues of the king at the inner
doorway (fig. 9). By this more extended arrangement, the por-
tico was converted into a spacious hall of columns, where the
great assemblies were held at stated periods under the presidency
of the king; and two sets of columns at the upper end of the
inner court, with screens uniting the front row, then served
as the portico (fig. 4). This was the ordinary arrangement of a
large temple; but other chambers and halls were sometimes
added between the hall of columns and the sanctuary; and
when many kings wished to honour the god by successive
additions to the same temple, lateral courts with pyramidal
towers were appended at the side, forming new approaches on
the right and left. Before the gate of the enclosure was a
paved road, sometimes with another avenue of sphinxes (the
emblems of the king) or of rams, or lions, leading to a square
building open at the top, and consisting merely of columns,