Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypostyles
Literary usage of Hypostyles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Abroad Again: Or, A Fresh Foray in Foreign Lands by Curtis Guild (1877)
"... with the sun disc between the horns ; and farther on, at the continuation of
the entrance hall at each side of the hypostyles, are two colossal seated ..."
2. Egyptian Archaeology by Gaston Maspero (1892)
"left untouched, and only the ceremonial parts of the building, as the hypostyles,
courts, or pylons, were attacked ..."
3. Kings and Gods of Egypt by Alexandre Moret (1912)
"May it be that the temple exhibited, along with the obelisks, pylons, hypostyles,
a shrine hidden away behind high walls, embedded, as it were in masonry? ..."
4. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel by Samuel Gamble Bayne (1909)
"... of each wonder as he reached the everlasting wilderness of courts, pillars
and obelisks, of hieroglyphics, bas-reliefs, pylons, hypostyles, colonnades, ..."
5. Oeuvres diverses by Maxence Rochemonteix (1894)
"C'est surtout par l'adjonction d'hypostyles que s'est fait l'étirement du plan.
En fait, on entrait assez peu dans les appartements divins, et seulement ..."
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