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Abydos alabaster Amenhotep Amenhotep III ancient artist Assouan bas-reliefs Beni Hassan blocks blue body Boulak Museum bricks building built capital catacombs chamber chapel colour columns contain cornice court covered dead deceased decorated door Double Edfoo Egypt Egyptian Eighteenth Dynasty El Kab enclosure entrance erected excavated façade face Fayoom feet high feet in height figures flat four funerary Gizeh gods granite ground Hatshepsu head hieroglyphs Horemheb hypostyle hall inscriptions Karnak Khafra king limestone lotus flower Luxor mastaba Medinet Haboo Memphis monuments mummy Nile obelisks oblong ornamented painted passage Pharaohs pillars placed portico pylon pyramid pyramid of Unas Rameses Rameses II Ramesseum represented roof Sakkarah sanctuary sarcophagus scenes sculptured sepulchral serdab Seti shaft side Sixth Dynasty sometimes Soul sphinxes square standing statues statuettes stela stone surface temple Theban Thebes thickness Thothmes tomb Translator's note vases vault vertical walls