Doors and Windows. i6i form was sometimes used in the Pharaonic period for the openings in inclosing walls. There is a representation of such a door in a bas-relief at Karnak, where it is shown in front of a pylon and forms probably an opening in a boundary wall.^ It was this representation that decided us to give a broken lintel to the I^Wi iflil^^^/ I"iG. 152. — Doorway of the Temple of i;eti, at Abydcs. doorway opposite to the centre of the royal pavilion at Medinet- Abou (Plate 'III.). This form of entrance may have originated in the desire to give plenty of head-room for the canopy under which the sovereign was carried, as well as for the banners and various standards which we see figured in the triumphal and religious processions of the bas-reliefs (Fig. 172, 'ol. I.). ' Pris?e, Hisfoirc d': J' Art Egxfiun. VOL. II.
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