84), the temple surpassed even the boldest architectural enterprises hitherto attempted; but the Pharaohs of the Nineteenth Dynasty succeeded in achieving still more.

They added only a hypostyle hall (fig.
85) and a pylon; but the hypostyle hall measured 170 feet in length by 329 feet in breadth.

Down the centre they carried a main avenue of twelve columns, with lotus-flower capitals, being the loftiest ever erected in the interior of a building; while in the aisles, ranged in seven rows on either side, they planted 122 columns with lotus-bud capitals.

The roof of the great nave rose to a height of 75 feet above the level of the ground, and the pylon stood some fifty feet higher still.

During a whole century, three kings laboured to perfect this hypostyle hall.