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TEMPLE OF PIANKHl columns ; this court was 150 feet long, approximately. The pillars were nearly six feet in diameter, and they rested on bases about one and a half feet larger.

The second court (B) was 125 feet long and 102 feet wide, and was also entered by a pylon, about twenty-eight feet deep. At the east PLAN OK THE TEMPLE OF PIANKHl AT GEBEL BARKAL—THE GREAT PYLON AND MAIN HALL.

[From Lepsius, DenkiniUer, Abth. I. Bl. 128.

side were three rows, each containing six pillars, three on each side of the door, and a double row of columns stood on each side of the pathway which was about seventeen feet wide, from pylon to pylon.

On each side of the entrance to the pylon in this court were VOL. I, 145 L

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