Atlas of Egyptian Art

Atlas of Egyptian Art Architecture
COLUMN OF THE RAMESSEUM (Thebes)
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Each New Kingdom
pharaoh built a mortuary
temple in western
Thebes. There, Ramesses
II erected the
Ramesseum, where
columns still retain some
of the colors that Prisse
recorded in this plate.
This type of column rep-
resents a bundle of
papyrus stalks, as did the
columns of the previous
plates, but with an
opened umbel as its capi-
tal.