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The Arch. 83 section of a passage leading to one of the chambers cut in the rock. Fig. 52 offers a view in per- spective of the same passage and of the discharsfine chamber which reallv bears the thrust of the weight above. The second example of this con- struction comes from a famous work of the nineteenth dynasty, the temple of Seti I. at Abydos. Our figure (53) shows one of the curious row of chapels in which the originality of that building consists.^ Fig. 51. -Transverse section of This quasi-vault, for which Mariette finds LTSpsius.lTi'l?^'^'^ ' a reason in the funerary character of the building, has been obtained by cutting into three huge sandstone Fig. 52. — Section ia perspective through the same corridor ; composed from the elevation of Lepsiu5. ^ See also pp. 385-392, Vol. I. and Fig. 224. — Our perspective has been compiled from the Description de I'Egypte, from ^^ariette's work and from photographs.