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Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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m the sightof the vulgar. Seti re-solved to extend thebuilding in a northerlydirection, without iu-terfering with the thin screen which had satisfied his predecessors.Starting from the entrance in this wall, he planned an avenue of giantcolumns rivalling those of Karnak, which he destined to become the centralcolonnade of a hypostyle hall as vast as that of the sister temple. Eithermoney or time was lacking to carry out his intention. He died before theaisles on either side were even begun.^ At Abydos, however, he was moresuccessful. We do not know the reason of Setis particular afiection for this Drawn by Faueher-Gudin, from a photograph by Beato; iu the background, on the right, maybe seen a column which for several centuries has been retained in a half-fallen position by the weightof its architrave. As to this colonnade at Luxor, cf. IEUUOT-tJuiPiEZ.fliisioiVe de IAH dans rAntiqiiitg, vol. i. p. 378 ;in regard to the building of the temple, see what is said on pp. .S06-308, stqira.
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THE i.iHAllM. OF )UE CENTRAL COLONNADE IN THE IIYlO^^TYLEUALL AT KARNAK. :380 THE REACTION AGAINST EGYPT. town ; it is possible that liis family held some fief there, or it may be that hedesired to show the peculiar estimation in which he held its local god, andintended, by the homage that he lavished on him, to cause the fact to beforgotten that he bore the name of Sit the accursed. The king selected afavourable site for his temple to the south of the town, on the slope of a sand-hill bordering the canal, and he marked out in the hardened soil a ground plan

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