10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLAGSTAVES»
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flagstaves in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Medinet Habu: Mortuary Temple of Ramses III
Two of four holes above are for flagstaves and pennants of the Temple. Medinet
Habu 5. Mortuary Temple of Rameses III. Entrance to the Temple proper. Close
up of the southern half of the First Pylon, the whole about 80 feet thick, 210 feet ...
Frederick Monderson, 2009
2
Temple of Karnak: The Majestic Architecture of Ancient Kemet
Temple of Karnak 4. Entrance facade and Security Checkpoint that screens all
visitors. Temple of Karnak 5. Broad face of the Propylon showing Security
Checkpoint and openings for flagstaves that flew the flags of the Temple, state
and nation ...
Frederick Monderson, 2007
With an improved design and construction, the Kalabsha pylon has been better
able to survive the ravages of time than have the Eighteenth Dynasty pylons.
Later temples tend to have relatively few flagstaves; Kalabsha, Dakkaand
Philaeeach ...
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Ancient Egypt and the East
THE SUPPORTS OF THE PYLON FLAGSTAVES. The device by which the
gigantic wooden flagstaves, always placed before the pylons, were held secure,
has, I believe, never been satisfactorily explained, though several contemporary
...
5
Return, East India: Public Works India : Ordered by the ...
Madras Flagstaves. Master-attendant's, Latitude, 13° 6' N. ; Longitude, 80° 21' 55"
E. Indian Atlas. Fort - - „ 13° 5' N. ; Longitude, 80° 21' 45" E. 84. At Madras there
are two flagstaves ; one placed at the master-attendant's office on the north ...
83. He is at present supplied with a code of Marryatt's signals, but as very few
vessels, either European or native, visit the place, it is not in contemplation to
renew them on their becoming unservieeable. Mad1'a.v Flagstaves. Master-
attendant's ...
Great Britain House of Commons, 1851
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Ancient Records of Egypt: Supplementary bibliographies and ...
Khammat (Soleh) — TEMPLE IN KHAMMAT: huilt hy Amen- hotep III, II 890; of
sandstone, II 890,895,898; pylons of, II 894; portals of, II 890, 895, 898; divine
shadow of, II 895; floor adorned with silver, II 890; ohelisks of, II 890, 894;
flagstaves ...
James Henry Breasted, 2001
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Ancient Records of Egypt: The first through the seventeenth ...
Relief represents the pylon of the Khonsu- temple, with four flagstaves on either
side of the portal. The inscriptions under the architrave and beside the flagstaves,
though fragmentary, show the name of Hrihor.c Above the pylon is the following:
...
James Henry Breasted, 2001
“My Lord, there is mention of as many two Flagstaves.” “Well, that is hardly
enough to worry the forces of Valkhara,” boasted General Dojo-ma. “Wrong,
General,” said Vee. “One of these letters comes from the Qegmmire, the human
Lord ...
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Ancient Records of Egypt: The eighteenth dynasty
... (IV and V), and the two obelisks before them, of which one still stands.
tMeaning the slopes of Lebanon; cf. the "Myrrh-terraces." nFour such flagstaves,
set in channels cut for them in the faces of the pylons, usually adorned the temple
facade.
James Henry Breasted, 2001
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLAGSTAVES»
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The 1819 `Peterloo' massacre: class struggle in the Industrial …
The hustings remained, with a few broken and hewed flagstaves erect, and a torn and gashed banner or two drooping; whilst over the whole ... «Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Aug 09»
