Photo by A. W, Cutler 

 LOOKING ACROSS THE GREAT HYPOSTYLE HAEE OE THE TEMPLE OE AMEN-RA : 



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The date is 1200-1500 B. C. There are 134 columns, and the two between which the 

 men are standing in this photograph are 80 feet high and 33 feet in circumference. This 

 great hall, one of the finest achievements of Egyptian architecture, was begun by Rameses 

 I, but he only erected the pylon and one of the pillars, and it was left for his son, Sety I, 

 to accomplish the great majority of the work, and for his grandson, Rameses II, to finish it. 

 This hall is the largest single chamber ever reared by the Egyptians, and, although opinions 

 differ upon its artistic merits, it is certainly among the most impoF/'ng buildings in the world. 

 Almost all the sculpture on the columns is due to the completing hand of Rameses II. 



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