The structure of Urartu building was made of beams and columns with marquee beds; buildings had rectangular plans and
hypostyle halls were the specifications of this architecture.
A view of the Nile at dusk from the deck of the Sun Boat IV (above), columns depicting the Goddess Hathor in the Temple of Hathor, Denderah (right) and the Great
Hypostyle Hall, temple of Karnak (below)
As an example of the latter, the Treasury, a side room to the left (west) of the so-called "Hall of the Ennead" immediately before the sanctuary, is longer than the adjacent rooms within that part of the temple; this is because its back wall is aligned with the side rooms in the section before it, beside the Inner
Hypostyle Hall.
Just beyond the main room of columns, the ceiling of the Small
Hypostyle Hall is engraved with astronomical figures (see the photographs at left).
In his water-colour of the
Hypostyle Hall at Karnak, for instance, he takes a low viewpoint to achieve an almost claustrophobic sensation of those huge columns soaring up above the small figures below.
It includes Egypt's oldest known
hypostyle hall, city blocks and paved streets over an area the size of four football fields.
I am also puzzled as to why Gee compares the cycle in the Great
Hypostyle Hall at Karnak to pBerlin 3055, rather than to pCairo-Turin and pBM 10689, both of which share much stronger parallels with the Karnak reliefs.
A model of the
Hypostyle Hall of the Mosque of Cordoba was built to commemorate the Spanish city of Cordoba and to mark the Spanish prime minister's visit.
The system aims to deliver your bags from hold to belt in 10 minutes, so it's not a place to linger, but even so, this functional transit zone is conceived as a kind of elegant cavern or, as, Matthew Wells notes, a
hypostyle hall (shades of the Temple of Karnak).
The square
Hypostyle Hall has majestic Empire-style decoration with four gigantic Ionic columns supporting the ceiling.
And at Karnak, the columns of the Great
Hypostyle Hall now stand perfectly upright, with their aisles cleared of the debris that had collected there for thousands of years.
For a night this month, the sky delivers an image we can find on the astronomical ceiling of the
hypostyle hall of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera.
