Architecture; Temples; Religious facilities; Buildings; Monuments; Gods; Architectural elements; Religious architectural elements; Structural elements; Ceremonial rooms; Halls; Columns; Courtyards; Lakes & ponds; Bodies of water; Pylons...
Includes: hypostyle hall; standing obelisk; sanctuary; [6] courts; festival temple of Tuthmose III; scarab; sacred lake; sed festival temple of Amenhotep III; Temple of Khonsu; [2] avenues of ram-headed sphinxes; avenue of human-headed sphinxes;...
A. Plan - 1. East chevet with three apses 2. Transept topped with a square lantern tower 3. Polygonal stairway turrets 4. Nave and aisles 5. Crypt-hall with ambulatory set with niches throughout; B. Longitudinal section; C. Axonometric projection.
"This mosaic decorated the bottom of a shallow pool […]. The hole at its center belonged to a water jet. […] Its border consists of a band of twisted ribbon between plain bands. The emblema shows one of the popular episodes related to the...
Hypostyle hall, also called the "Temple of the Spirit of Sety, Beloved of Ptah in the House of Amun." Elements included: flower capitals; bud capitals; clerestory.
"The son and successor of Artaxerxes, Shapur I (r. 241-272), succeeded in further extending Sasanian territory. He also erected a great palace at Ctesiphon, the capital his father had established near modern Baghdad in Iraq. The central...
1. West porch 2. Corridor of the procession 3. South propylon 4. Central court 5. "Theater area" 6. North-south corridor 7. Pillar hall 8. Magazines 9. Throne room 10. Palace shrine and lower verandas 11. Stepped porch 12. Grand staircase...
1. West porch 2. Corridor of the procession 3. South propylon 4. Central court 5. "Theater area" 6. North-south corridor 7. Pillar hall 8. Magazines 9. Throne room 10. Palace shrine and lower verandas 11. Stepped porch 12. Grand staircase...
“The building, dating to the late Augustan period, presented the appearance of a two-storied cube. The ground floor is occupied by a wide hypostyle hall (13.5 x 15.7 m or 44 x 51.5 ft.) with four columns at its center, which was used for public...