viii List of Illustrations. FIG. PAGE 24. House, Storehouse, and garden 36 25. Brewing 37 26. Granaries 37 27. Granaries 38 28. Military post at Abydos 42 29. Military post 42 30. Bird's-eye view of the fortress of Semneh 43 31. A besieged fort 46 32. Siege of a fortress 47
- ^;^. Brick stamped with the royal ovals 54
34. The Sarcophagus of Mycerinus 57 35. Door of a tomb at Sakkarah 60 36. Stele from the fourth dynasty 61 37. Stele from the fourth dynasty 62 38. Flattened form of lotus-leaf ornament, seen in front and in section ... 63 39. Lotus-leaf ornament in its elongated form 63 40. Wooden pavilion 64 41. Horizontal section, in perspective, of the first pylon at Karnak 67 42. Workmen polishing a monolithic column 69 43. Transport of a colossus . 73 44. Arch in the necropoHs of Abydos 78 45. Arch in El-Assassif 79 46. Arch in El-Assassif 80 47. Vaults in the Ramesseum 81 48. Vault in the Ramesseum 81 49. Elliptical vault 82 50. Foundations with inverted segmental arches 82 51. Transverse section of a corridor at Dayr-el-Bahari 83 52. Section in perspective through the same corridor 83 53. Vaulted chapel at Abydos 84 54. Bas-relief from the fifth dynasty 86 55. Detail of capital 86 56. Bas-relief from the fifth dynasty 87 57. Details of columns in Fig. 56 87 58. Pavilion from Sakkarah 87 59. Details of columns in Fig. 58 87 60. Bas-relief from the fifth dynasty 88 61. Details of the columns 88 62 — 65. Columns from bas-reliefs 89 66. Quadrangular pier 92 67. Tapering quadrangular pier 92 68. Pier with capital 92 69. Hathoric pier 92 70. Osiride pillar 93 71. Ornamented pier 94 72. Octagonal pillar 96
