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Example sentences for "hypogeum"

Lexicographically close words:
hypodermal; hypodermic; hypodermically; hypogastric; hypogene; hypoglossal; hypogynous; hypopharynx; hypophosphite; hypophosphites
  1. We shall call attention, however, to a hypogeum at Gizeh, which is numbered 81 in Lepsius's map of that tomb-field.

  2. Mineptah (Merenptah) added a great Hypogeum of Osiris to the temple of Seti.

  3. The hypogeum or subterranean gallery is on a level with the floor, pierced towards the hill, and is entered by a very small doorway [marked d on Ground Plan, Plate XI.

  4. Pict's house, or clochan, whichever name may be adopted by archæologists, to which a hypogeum or subterranean gallery is attached.

  5. What strikes us most of all in the colossal hypogeum is the meeting there, in the middle of the stairway by which we leave, with yet another black coffin, which lies across our path as if to bar it.

  6. At last the principal artery of the hypogeum appears, a thoroughfare more than five hundred yards long, cut in the rock, where the Bedouins have prepared for us the customary feeble light.

  7. The master of the house, while his Bedouin servants are gone to open and light up for us the underground habitations of the Apis, shows us his latest astonishing find, made this morning in a hypogeum of one of the most ancient dynasties.

  8. It is in this room that the remarkable nature of the work in the hypogeum is most apparent.

  9. The finest instance of this is the Halsaflieni hypogeum in Malta, where the solid rock is hewn out with infinite care to imitate the form and even the details of surface building.

  10. This work forcibly recalls the work of the megalithic builders in the hypogeum of Halsaflieni in Malta (see Chap.

  11. In two of the largest chambers in the hypogeum the roof and walls are still decorated with designs in red paint.

  12. Tagliaferro, The Prehistoric Pottery found in the Hypogeum at Halsaflieni, in Annals of Archæology and Anthropology, Vol.

  13. An old hypogeum between the Viæ Salaria and Nomentana.

  14. Here and there were separate monuments, and in the centre was the entrance to the hypogeum itself, or crypt.


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