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Karnak: Hypostyle Hall (1864 photo)    .


Hypostyle Hall at Karnak (photo: Beato 1864).


Karnak, part of Thebes, contained a vast (1.5 by 0.8 km) complex of temples first built during the 18th Dynasty (1550-1307 BC) and expanded in the 19th Dynasty, when the temple complex of Amun was constructed.

A major feature of this complex was the Hypostyle Hall, part of which is shown in this silver albumin print by Italian photographer Antonio Beato from 1864. The image gives a sharply focused view of hieroglyphs and other relief carvings on the massive columns and lintels of the Hypostyle Hall, and may be compared with the 1858 print by Frith.  Earlier, colored lithographic drawings of same site were made in the late 1830s and early 1840s by Roberts and Lepsius.
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