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^.■;;;:ffnip ^#?-' .1. 1) iO 20 31) 45 SO Fig. 219. — Plan of the Kamesseum (from Lepsius.) arrangement is the same ; there is in both a wide passage down the centre, supported by columns thicker and higher than the rest, from which they are also distinguished by the nobility of their bell-shaped capitals. At Karnak the hall was begun by ^ Lepsius, Denkmceler, part i. plates 88 and 89. The engineers of the Instihit d'Egypte fell into an error in speaking of this hall. They failed to notice that it was smaller than the second court, and they accordingly gave it sixty columns. [Description gl'iieralc de T/icbes, o. i. p. 132.) VOL. I. 3 <'