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ANCIENT EGYPT
LIMESTONE FALSE DOOR WITH HIEROGLYPHS, PLANT CAPITAL OF THE
TOMB OF KING TJETJI, GIZA, EGYPT, c.2400 BC PTOLEMAIC-ROMAN PERIOD,
EGYPT, 332-30 BC
Hieroglyph representing a house
Palm
Lintel Disk leaf
representing
sun or light
Papyrus
flower
Eroded Limestone
image of stela Papyrus
Tjetji (slab) leaf

Hoe-shaped Head Image of Image of Papyrus
hieroglyph of false Tjetji’s wife Tjetji’s stem
representing door daughter
“mr” sound Lotus bud Lotus stem

Cornice decorated with Bead Trellis Rectangular pier decorated ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
cavetto molding molding window with hieroglyphs BUILDING DECORATION

Elevated roof
of central nave
Clerestory

Disk representing
Sun or light DECORATED WINDOW,
MEDINET HABU, EGYPT,
c.1198 BC

Architrave
Square
abacus
ROPE AND PATERAE
Papyrus- DECORATION
bud
capital

Papyriform
column

Shaft
CAPITAL WITH THE HEAD OF THE
SKY-GODDESS HATHOR, TEMPLE
OF ISIS, PHILAE, EGYPT, 283-47 BC

LOTUS AND PAPYRUS
Scene depicting a Pharaoh (king) Central nave FRIEZE DECORATION
paying homage to the god Amon-Re

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