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	Hypostyle hall
		The hypostyle hall represented the middle section of a temple.
		Hypostyle halls are noted for the density of their columns.
		In the temple, the hypostyle hall symbolized the reed swamp growing near the primeval mound, reflecting a location closest to the source of the holy.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/hyp_hall.htm (222 words)

	The Atlantean Symbolism of the Egyptian Temple (Part I)
		The hypostyle court was in semi-darkness, except for a small skylight at the top which allowed a ray of light to enter through the opening, falling directly upon the god's statue.
		In the introduction to the present essay, we mentioned the fact that the hypostyle hall was indeed a replica of the subterranean realm of Atlantis or, rather, of its tropical forest with its enormous trees.
		All in all, it is plausible to conclude that the luscious region portrayed in the hypostyle halls of Egyptian temples is indeed Punt, and not at all the Egyptian delta, its attempted copy.
	www.atlan.org /copyright/1997/articles/temple1 (8784 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for hypostyle
		Karnak The religious centre of ancient Thebes, situated on the east bank of the Nile, where the great temple of Amun was constructed.
		But she says that pleasures like riding a bike through the ruins of the glorious hypostyle hall at the Temple of Karnak every morning more than make up for the weirdness inherent in working in Egypt.
		One of the most overpowering sights of the temple is the Hypostyle Hall, an organised forest of gigantic engraved columns, each one so large it takes the outstretched arms of six people to...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=hypostyle (1325 words)

	Welcome to hypostyle \| Hypostyle Architects
		With issues of sustainability and energy- conscious design at its heart, this residential development of 26 units was awarded to Hypostyle in a competition promoted by Clyde...
		Tom McCabe, MSP for Hamilton South, officially opened one of Hypostyle's most recent high profile projects on...
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	www.hypostyle.co.uk (144 words)

	THE TEMPLE COMPLEX AT KARNAK
		The hypostyle hall once had a roof and was only illuminated by the light that came through the high clerestory windows which were built into the walls.
		Outside of the Hypostyle Hall is the one remaining obelisk of the pair originally erected by Tuthmosis I.This is 23 metres tall and weighs 143 tons.
		It consists of a hypostyle hall of two rows of ten columns,and a row of thirty two square pillars.This area was used as a church by the Christians later on.
	gtae.users.btopenworld.com /karnak.htm (937 words)

	Egyptian holiday: Dendera
		Hypostyle is used to describe a hall which has a ceiling supported by columns, Hathor temple has two Hypostyle Halls.On the left is a photograph showing the facade of the outer Hypostyle Hall.
		The facade is divided by six columns each of which which have four heads of Hathor engraved around them (as can be seen in the picture on the left).The walls between the columns contain images of roman emperors making offerings to Horus, Hathor and their son Ihy.
		The Outer Hypostyle Hall's ceiling is decorated with images, such as the Roman signs of the zodiac, sun-discs and the goddess Nut, whilst the walls show Pharaoh Roman emperors engaged in the act of "offerings" to Hathor.
	www.egyptianholiday.net /dendera.htm (1252 words)

	Egyptian Journey 2003: Photos: Luxor: Temple of Karnak: Hypostyle Hall
		We were entirely unprepared for the sheer size of the columns in the hypostyle hall.
		The hypostyle hall of the Great Temple of Amun is about 6000 square meters and is filled with 134 columns, like a great dark forest of stone.
		The hall was originally roofed over, with sunlight filtering in through grilles above the columns in the center, which was raised above the side of the hall.
	www.phouka.com /pharaoh/egypt/photos/luxor/karnak/hypostyle-01.html (222 words)

	Hypostyle Hall, Philae
		To enter the Sanctum and lay eyes on the statue of the Goddess in her naos, was only for the High Priest while conducting the daily services.
		At the furthest end of the hypostyle hall we come, via a transitory vestibule to three smaller rooms in a row, all depicted with carvings of ritual scenes.
		Crosing the transitory hall, behind the pillars of the Hypostyle Hall, are the doors to the antechambers that lead into the dark innermost chamber of the temple - the Sanctum.
	www.philae.nu /philae/hypostyle.html (300 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A hypostyle is a room or a chamber that has many columns.
		The first hypostyle hall was innovated by Imhotep, pharaoh Djoser's royal architect and vizier who was later deified, at the step pyramid at Saqqara (c.
		The many columns of hypostyle halls were reminiscent of the fields of reed-like papyrus plants that grew from the primordial marsh in Egyptian creation mythology.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=corb032 (170 words)

	Anne and Charles Duncan Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Along with the figure of the river valley, Outram uses a regular grid of columns, called a hypostyle, to organize his architecture.
		The hypostyle is a regular grid of columns, potentially infinite in its extension.
		In the campus plan, the hypostyle might be recognized in the regular and ordered planting of trees.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~keith/DuncanHall/RobotOrder.html (492 words)

	Hypostyle - LoveToKnow 1911
		HYPOSTYLE, in architecture, the term applied to a hall, the flat ceiling of which is supported by columns, as in the Hall of Columns at Karnak.
		In this case the columns flanking the central avenue are of greater height than those of the side aisles, and this admits of openings in the wall above the smaller columns, through which light is admitted over the aisle roof, through clerestory windows.
		This page was last modified 14:13, 3 Sep 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Hypostyle (78 words)

	Temple of Luxor
		The Hypostyle Hall is at the south side of the Courtyard of Amenophis III.
		Beyond the Hypostyle Hall are several smaller rooms, the central one of which was used later as a Christian church.
		This area, still with some of the original roof, was the most sacred area of the temple and had a gold-plated statue of the god Amon as well as a birth room with reliefs referring to the divine birth of Amenophis III.
	www.bluffton.edu /~SULLIVANM/egypt/luxor/luxor3.html (290 words)

	Edfu, Egypt - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		The facade of the first hypostyle hail has images honoring Horus and Hathor, and there is an immaculate ten foot tall colossi of Horus as the falcon god here.
		Beyond the great hypostyle hail is a second, smaller hypostyle hail which leads to a well called the Chamber of the Nile where the Priests obtained pure holy water.
		Beyond the second hypostyle hail is the offering hall, followed by the vestibule and finally the sanctuary.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /egypt_edfu.htm (359 words)

	TOMB RAIDER 4 - LEVEL 8: GREAT HYPOSTYLE HALL
		You can go between them as many times as you need to, but twice through each level should be enough if you explore thoroughly.
		You aren't yet able to open the door at the end of that passageway (you're missing the HYPOSTYLE KEY), but you'll be back.
		Extra special thanks to Dewo for the tip on the thieving assassin in the area beyond the Hypostyle lock.
	tombraiders.net /stella/walks/TR4walk/hypostyle.html (2044 words)

	Temple of Amon - Karnak, Egypt - Great Buildings Online
		Hypostyles—the Greek root means 'resting on columns'—were man-made stone forests separating the temple's open court, where festivals and ceremonies took place, from the sanctuary, to which only kings and priests were admitted.
		"The hypostyle of the Temple of Amun, the most prodigious ever erected, was finished by Rameses II (d.
		The entire hypostyle was originally roofed with slabs of stone: the effect of columns vanishing into darkness must have been spellbinding.
	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Temple_of_Amon.html (333 words)

	Great Hypostyle Hall, Karnak, Egypt, Photo, Photos
		The Great Hypostyle Hall of Columns, in the Temple of Amun at the Karnak Temple Complex in ancient Thebes (modern-day Luxor), is one of the most spectacular settings in all of Egypt.
		The tallest columns, flanking both sides of a long passageway through the center of the hall, are 122′ feet high.
		The Hypostyle Hall was completed primarily by Seti I with some additions at the boundaries of the hall by Ramses II.
	www.oceanlight.com /log/great-hypostyle-hall-karnak-egypt.html (221 words)

	Temple explore
		The hypostyle hall was a large room with columns.
		Most of the room was dark except for the centre aisle which was lit by small windows cut into the roof.
		Only the important priests and the pharaoh were allowed to enter the hypostyle hall.
	www.ancientegypt.co.uk /temples/explore/hypo.html (124 words)

	hypostyle - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Temple of Amon: hypostyle built by Ramses II
		In architecture, a hypostyle hall has a flat ceiling which is supported by columns, as in the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak.
		A fun, somewhat confusing romp through this UK firm's portfolio, showing examples of a wide range of design types.
	encarta.msn.com /hypostyle.html (126 words)

	hypostyle - OneLook Dictionary Search
		hypostyle : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Hypostyle : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		HYPOSTYLE : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=hypostyle (186 words)

	NOVA Online \| Mysteries of the Nile \| Karnak Temple: Great Hypostyle Hall (N side)
		The Great Hypostyle Hall is one of the most spectacular monuments of ancient Egypt.
		Possibly begun by Amenophis III, this veritable forest of soaring pillars was continued by Seti I and finished by Ramses II.
		The north wall of the Great Hypostyle Hall dwarfs an Egyptian laborer.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/egypt/explore/karnakhypnor.html (159 words)

	Saqqara. Zoser. Entrance and Hypostyle Hall
		Inside from the outer walls, you will pass through the hypostyle hall with its 40 columns.
		Most pass through this quite swiftly, eager to take in the postcard angle of Zoser's pyramid.
		But you should note that this is the oldest surviving hypostyle hall in the world, anyone visiting the temples further south will be well acquainted with hypostyle halls.
	i-cias.com /egypt/saqqara02.htm (157 words)

	TOMB RAIDER 4 - LEVEL 8: GREAT HYPOSTYLE HALL
		You can go between them as many times as you need to, but twice through each level should be enough if you explore thoroughly.
		You aren't yet able to open the door at the end of that passageway (you're missing the HYPOSTYLE KEY), but you'll be back.
		Extra special thanks to Dewo for the tip on the thieving assassin in the area beyond the Hypostyle lock.
	www.tombraiders.net /stella/walks/TR4walk/hypostyle.html (2044 words)

	Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mosque in which the prayer hall is formed of rows of vertical supports, or columns, that can multiply indefinitely.
		Hypostyle Hall of the Mosque of the Umayyad, Damascus
		Hypostyle Hall of the Mosque of Cordoba, Spain
	web.mit.edu /4.614/www/hypostylemosque.html (36 words)

	Pyramids tour, Saqqara, hypostyle hall - VIRTOURIST.COM PYRAMIDS
		There are so many interesting things to see here that a complete visit to this area could take several days.
		The things you should not miss are: the pyramid of Zoser (the one we saw on the previous photo, at our left), the hypostyle hall (in this photo), the funerary temple of Zoser (behind the pyramid), the Teti pyramid, the Serapeum (with more than 25 sarcophagus) and the tombs of Akhi -Hotep and Ptah-Hotep.
		The Serapeum was found in the 19th century.
	www.virtourist.com /africa/pyramids/16.htm (119 words)

	Karnak - tips by travel authority Howard Hillman
		The most imposing element of the Temple of Karnak is the 3,000-plus-year-old Great Hypostyle Hall inside the Temple of Amon-Ra.
		The Great Hypostyle room is larger than a football field and is easily one of the grandest spaces ever erected.
		It served as a pageantry gate leading to the Great Hypostyle Hall and as a barricade to unauthorized mortals (only the elite could enter).
	www.hillmanwonders.com /karnak/karnak.htm (204 words)

	Karnak
		The outer walls of the Hypostyle Hall are covered with scenes of battle.
		The Transverse Hall lies beyond the rear wall of the Hypostyle Hall.
		Leaving the hypostyle hall through the third pylon you come to a narrow court where there once stood several obelisks.
	interoz.com /egypt/karnak.htm (1222 words)

	Malia
		Behind the portico was a large "Hypostyle Hall" with six piers in two asymmetrical rows, of which only the bases survive.
		North west of the palace is the "Hypostyle Crypt", whose exact use remains unknown.
		Further north parts of the town have been excavated and although intriguing views of these covered areas can be seen from the road leading to the beach, the area remains closed to the public.
	www.uk.digiserve.com /mentor/minoan/malia.htm (1526 words)

	Thebes: Ramesseum
		This mortuary temple is the standard Egyptian type with two pylons and two courtyards which precede the hypostyle hall; then the most sacred area is at the rear.
		Views of the portico and hypostyle hall from the second courtyard--three stairways rise to the portico or vestibule before the hypostyle hall
		Go to page 2: the second courtyard, the portico, the great hypostyle hall, reliefs, and the rear smaller hypostyle halls (the most sacred area).
	www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/egypt/thebes/ramesseum/ramesseum.html (517 words)

	The Atlantean Symbolism of the Egyptian Temple - 1
		Anyone who ever entered a tropical forest in his lifetime will readily realize that the hypostyle hall of the Egyptian temples was designed in order to represent one: the imposing gloom, the trick trunes of the pillars all around, the luscious colors, the vegetation above forming a thick canopy high overhead, and so on.
		In fact, even the evergreen forests of the temperate or the cold regions of the world do resemble the hypostyle hall of an Egyptian temple, except for the lack of the colorful vegetation.
		Keep this analogy in mind the next time you are lucky enough to enter an Egyptian temple like the one of Karnak, and you will readily realize the truth of what we are claiming.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /atlantida_mu/esp_atlantida_3.htm (0 words)

	ArtLex's Ho-Hz page
		Egypt, The Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple of Ammon at Karnak, c.
		a model of this hypostyle hall as it originally appeared.
		Hypostyle Hall of the Great Mosque of Córdoba, Spain, begun 786, doubled in area in the 10th century to 585 x 410 feet, with 1,200 columns supporting horseshoe arches, patterned with colored
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/Ho.html (0 words)

	The Great Hypostyle Hall at the Temple of Amun, Karnak, Part 2: The Columns
		The shaft of these largest columns, which resemble a papyrus stalk in the Hypostyle Hall, actually have three moldings that divide their cross section into three parts spanning 120 degrees.
		Those of the first four rows (going across) seen on entering the hypostyle hall have retained their original decorations, which was that given to them under Ramesses the Great.
		With these we have an example of the first stage of all the little columns on the right and left of the hypostyle hall before the additions of Ramesses (IV)".
	touregypt.net /featurestories/karnak4.htm (1602 words)

	Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Amon, Karnak (Getty Museum)
		Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Amon, Karnak (Getty Museum)
		Gustave Le Gray was not the first photographer to make images of Egypt's Hypostyle Hall in Karnak--his former student John Beasly Greene was there over a decade before him--but his images are by far the most dramatic.
		When arranging this photograph, Le Gray waited until a diagonal pattern of light and shadow cut across the center of the composition, receding to the fallen column at the rear.
	www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=107629 (104 words)

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