The cliff is shallow at this part, and the smaller hypostyle hall is backed by only a thin partition of rock.
The sanctuary and its immediate surroundings were closed against them; but they had access to the façades, the courts, and even the hypostyle halls, and might admire the masterpieces of their architects as freely as we admire them now.
The hypostyle hall is pervaded by a sober twilight; the sanctuary is more than half lost in a vague darkness; and at the end of the building, in the farthest of the chambers, night all but reigns completely.
In the hypostyle hall at Karnak, the campaniform columns support the nave, while the lotus-bud variety is relegated to the aisles (fig.
Sometimes a few pillars, left standing in the rock at the time of excavation, give this chamber the aspect of a little hypostyle hall.
The column with campaniform capital is mostly employed in the middle avenue of hypostyle halls, as at Karnak, the Ramesseum, and Luxor (fig.
The inner courts and hypostyle halls of the temple contained more colossi.
Another hypostyle hall (K) abuts on the end wall, and its dependencies are unequally distributed to right and left.
The peristyle is loftier than the hypostyle hall, and the hypostyle hall is loftier than the sanctuary.
It comes from the principal order in the hypostyle hall, and shows Egyptian architecture perhaps at its best.
The hypostyle halls may be compared to palm groves, to forests of pine, of oak, or of beech.
Claustra in theHypostyle Hall of the Temple of Khons 158.
Most of the travellers who visit Egypt expect to find huge monolithic shafts rearing their lofty heads on every side, and their surprise is great when they are told that the huge columns of the hypostyle halls are not cut from single blocks.
In the hypostyle hall the architraves of the central aisle are at least 29 feet long.
Light openings in a lateral aisle of the Hypostyle Hall in the Ramesseum 162.
Between the lofty roofs of the hypostyle halls and the sky which covers our heads the Egyptian decorator established a relationship which readily commends itself to the mind.
The authors of the Description came to the conclusion that there had been no roof of any kind to the avenue formed by the columns, that they merely formed a kind of monumental approach to the hypostyle hall.
It constitutes the only inclosure in front of the fine hypostylehall at Denderah.
In the inner hall there was only dim twilight; while the hypostyle was quite dark, but for a singularly contrived shaft of light which produced a most mysterious effect.
The monolithic pillars, however, of which we have spoken, give some slight foretaste of a feature which was to reach unrivalled majesty in the hypostyle halls of Karnak and Luxor.
Except that it is entirely inclosed by its walls, the Egyptian hypostyle had much the same appearance as the Greek proanos.
In some temples, especially in those of the Ptolemaic period, the hypostyle hall is withdrawn some distance behind the courtyard, and the sanctuary behind the hypostyle hall.
In the plan given by Lepsius there are two hypostyle halls with a wall between them, an arrangement which is also found at Abydos.
Next, and at a slightly higher level, came a hypostyle hall; its roof was supported by twelve square piers, those forming the central avenue being of caryatid form and higher than the others.
There are two hypostyle halls, the first supported by twenty-four, the second by thirty-six columns.
That of Lepsius goes to the back of the hypostyle hall.
A little farther on we shall have to speak of a peculiarity which exists at Abydos, but which is not hinted at in the adjoining plan; some of the columns are coupled in the first hypostyle hall.
The light which came through the door was borrowed from the hypostyle hall.
There is nothing to lead us to suppose that, except the king and the priests, any of the public were admitted into the building," at least beyond the hypostyle hall.
The real difficulty begins when we look round us for the pronaos, and examine the hypostyle halls.
There are neither dromos nor pylon, properly speaking, and only four caryatid pillars; but there is an open court with a hypostyle hall and a sanctuary cut in the rock.
From this vestibule the hypostylehall is reached by three doorways of black granite.
Then he conducted Ramses to the hypostyle and gave the order to admit deputations within the wall of the temple.
In the midst of the hypostyle stood the boat with the mummy of the departed sovereign, and on both sides of it, two thrones of equal height stood opposed to each other.
In the hypostyle he indicated to him the meaning of the geographical maps and statistical tables.
Then comes a second open court; then a hypostyle hall, i.
The general plan, therefore, of this hypostyle hall has some resemblance to that of a Christian basilica, but the columns are much more numerous and closely set.
A on the plan denotes the XIIth dynasty temple; B is the great hypostyle hall of Seti I.
The hypostyle hall, however, is pervaded by an appropriate twilight, the sanctuary is veiled in still deeper darkness, while in the chambers beyond reigns an almost perpetual night.
The sanctuary communicates, by means of two doors placed in the southern wall, with a hypostylehall of greater width than depth, divided by its pillars into a nave and two aisles.
Gay et, taken in 1889, of a scene in the hypostylehall at Lûxor.
Scene on the north wall of the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak; drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Insinger, taken in 1882.
Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Insinger of an outer wall of the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak.
Farther on, separated from the forecourt by smaller though still massive pylons, lay a hypostyle hall, so called from its covered colonnades; this hall was used for all kinds of processions.
Behind the hypostyle hall, to which a second similar one might or might not be added, came the holy of holies, a dark narrow chamber where the god dwelt; none but the priests were admitted to it.
Outside the main temple, to the north of the Hypostyle Hall, M.
In October, 1899, one of the columns of the side aisles of the great Hypostyle Hall fell, bringing down with it several others.
The naos was generally a kind of hypostyle hall, with a flat roof raised in the middle.
Trees and forests were turned by the Egyptian artists into hypostyle halls, with innumerable columns, spreading a mysterious gloom about them.
I now arrive at the hypostyle of the temple of Amen, and a sensation of fear makes me hesitate at first on the threshold.
The gloom deepens in the hypostyle which follows the pronaos.
Soon the grand hypostyle will be freed from rubbish, and its columns, which even before seemed so tremendous, uncovered now to the base, have added another twenty feet to their height.
The central bay of this hypostyle is in the same line as the road I have been following since I left the hall of Thothmes.
The hypostyle of the temple of the God Amen--that could be no other thing but one.
To the west of the hypostyle hall there is a region strewn with discs, all equal and all alike.
In the hypostyle there is a little blue shade behind the monstrous pillars, but even that shade is dusty and hot.
Behind this was the great hypostyle hall, extending the whole width of the building, with five aisles, the two outer ones being lower than the others.
Illustration: General View of the Ruins of Karnak] In the midst of the hypostyle stood the boat with the mummy of the departed sovereign, and on both sides of it, two thrones of equal height stood opposed to each other.
Then he conducted Rameses to the hypostyle and gave the order to admit deputations within the wall of the temple.
This is entered from the +Great Hypostyle Hall+ (h in Fig.
It has two forecourts adorned with double-aisled colonnades and connected by what seems to be an unfinished hypostyle hall.
At Luxor, to a complete typical temple were added three aisles of an unfinished hypostyle hall, and an elaborate forecourt, whose axis is inclined to that of the other buildings, owing to a bend of the river at that point.
A comparison, for example, of the plans of the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak (Fig.
One peculiar feature is the use of screen walls built into the front rows of columns of the hypostyle hall.
Slowly, perhaps, the body moves from courtyard to hypostyle hall, and from one hall to another.
Yes; only that obvious falsehood will convey to those who have not seen them the effect of some of the hypostyle halls, the columns of which seem literally soaring to the sky.
The building is like that of Kuba, only smaller: and the hypostyle is hung with oil lamps and ostrich eggs, the usual paltry furniture of an Arab [p.
It is a small strongly built square of hewn stone, with a dome covering the solitaryhypostyle to the South, and the usual minaret.
He planned the erection at Karnak of a hypostylehall in front of the pylons of Ramses II.
Gothic church must have been employed to admit light to these buildings, as we know was the case in the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak.
Hypostyle Hall, which had probably been originated by Rhamses I.
This hypostyle hall stood with its greatest length transverse to the general axis of the temple, so that it was entered from the side.
Considerable ingenuity was exercised in adapting the capitals of the columns to the positions in which they were placed: thus in the hypostyle halls, the lofty central row of columns generally had capitals of the form shown in Fig.
The roofing of the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak provides an arrangement for admitting light very similar to the clerestory of Gothic cathedrals.
They have in several instances disappeared, and there is certainly no ground for supposing that in any Greek interior the grand but oppressive effect of a hypostyle hall was attempted to be reproduced.
When the space between rock and stream permitted it, the courts and pylons were built, and only the hypostyle hall and the holy of holies, reduced to the minimum necessary for the performance of the rites, were cut from the rock.
The walls of the second story could scarcely have been placed elsewhere than upon the otherwise unreasonably thick partition-enclosure of the hypostyle hall.
The ceiling of the imposing hypostyle was upheld by thirty-six columns of gigantic size.
Section of the Hypostyle Hall, Great Temple of Carnac.
The effect of such a hall, especially of the great hypostyle of Carnac, must have been magnificently rich and imposing.
The last of the three chief temple divisions was reached from the hypostyle hall, either by a simple gateway or by a third pylon portal.
The space between the hypostyle and the exterior wall, indicated upon the plan by dotted lines, must have been occupied by the numerous small rooms which provided dwellings for the three hundred girls of the harem.
Section of theHypostyle Hall, Great Temple of Carnac 28 22.
Chief among these are the Propylaea of Eleusis and the house of assemblage for those initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries, known as the Telesterion, a square hypostyle hall, fronted by a portico of twelve columns, apparently without a gable.
He sat drinking coffee with jolly Sybil Sidmouth and her nerve-stricken stepmother in the lounge of the Savoy Hotel in Assouan just at the moment when Damaris sat herself down on the broken column in the Hypostyle Hall.
The treasure looted in Syria contributed to some of the most perfect Egyptian monuments, such as the mausoleum at Abydos and the hypostyle hall at Karnak, the tomb of the king.
The decoration of the hypostyle hall of Karnak is certainly due to this king: Ramses I conceived the plan, Seti commenced it, and Ramses II decorated it entirely.
Olympius Had desired Apuleius to go into his private room adjoining the hypostyle with Porphyrius, on whose senseless and rigid state no treatment had as yet had any effect.
When the players found that remonstrance had no effect they rushed into the hypostyle and tried to reduce the musicians to silence by force.
They crossed the colonnade at the side of the hypostyle and went down two steps into the vast nave of the temple.
They were posted close round the lower step of the platform that raised the hypostyle above the nave and the colonnades on each side of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hypostyle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
