I ^6 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. all four sides of the first court (Fig. io6), and upon two sides of the second ; upon one side of the latter, the side nearest to the sanctuary, there are four rows of columns (Fig. 107). All these are within the external walls of the courts, but the peripteral portico, embracing the temple walls, like those of Greece, is a-so to be found in a few rare instances (Fig. 108) ; as, OO0O 0©©© ©O©© O©0O O©0© 0000] I "^■"lOQQO OOOOL_ZIS 00 O O O i Fig. 107. — The portico of the pronaos, Luxor. for example, in the small temple at Elephantine which we have already described,^ In the cases where the portico is within the courts, it is some- times confined to two sides, as at Luxor (Fig. 109) ; the columns shown at the top of our plan belong to the pronaos and not to jl^ees 9 e e o 3 « Fig. ioS. — Part plan of the temple at Elephantine. Fig. 109. — Luxor, plan of the second court. the court. In the Temple of Khons it surrounds three sides (Fig. no), while the fine court added to the temple of Luxor by Rameses II. has a double colonnade all round it (Fig. iii). Both in the interior of the halls and in the external porticos we find an apparently capricious irregularity in spacing the J Chapter iv. pp. 396-400, Vol. T.
