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Page 55
Here are the great wooden doors from which Napoleon filched much , yet spared
a single portal of great beauty , inlaid with gold , silver , and bronze , as the guide
points out with immense satisfaction . Traces of elaborate mural decoration ...
Here are the great wooden doors from which Napoleon filched much , yet spared
a single portal of great beauty , inlaid with gold , silver , and bronze , as the guide
points out with immense satisfaction . Traces of elaborate mural decoration ...
Page 56
Traces of elaborate mural decoration still survive . And in the innermost recess ,
beneath a graceful dome , reposes all that was mortal of Sultan Hassan himself ,
modestly entombed . But it is not the surviving detail that makes it the most noble
...
Traces of elaborate mural decoration still survive . And in the innermost recess ,
beneath a graceful dome , reposes all that was mortal of Sultan Hassan himself ,
modestly entombed . But it is not the surviving detail that makes it the most noble
...
Page 99
Still later the arrangement of subterranean rooms , or partially subterranean
rooms , became complicated , the decoration most admirable , and the
development of the architecture devoted itself solely to the interior arrangement
of what ...
Still later the arrangement of subterranean rooms , or partially subterranean
rooms , became complicated , the decoration most admirable , and the
development of the architecture devoted itself solely to the interior arrangement
of what ...
Page 101
In arrangement they are invariably much less complicated than the wholly
subterranean tomb - chambers ; but their decoration , while mainly painted
instead of carved , is highly important and absorbingly interesting as throwing a
strong light ...
In arrangement they are invariably much less complicated than the wholly
subterranean tomb - chambers ; but their decoration , while mainly painted
instead of carved , is highly important and absorbingly interesting as throwing a
strong light ...
Page 103
Numerous lateral chambers were provided in the living rock , each decorated
with a world of symbolical painting - much of it having to do with the abode of the
dead , however , instead of as before with the life , activities , and sports of the
living ...
Numerous lateral chambers were provided in the living rock , each decorated
with a world of symbolical painting - much of it having to do with the abode of the
dead , however , instead of as before with the life , activities , and sports of the
living ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Egyptian Days |
| Author | Philip Sanford Marden |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1912 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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