ID: 700008802 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008802	Record Type: Built Work
Images: 1

Great Hypostyle Hall (temple (building); unknown Ancient Egyptian; ca. 1290-1224 BCE)

Note: Part of the Karnak temple complex, the hall covers an area of 50,000 sq ft. It includes 134 columns in 16 rows. Commenced in the 18th dynasty by Ramses I and completed under Seti I in the 19th dynasty.

Titles:

Great Hypostyle Hall (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Hypostyle Hall (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

hypostyle hall (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

temple (building) [300007595] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, ceremonial structures, religious structures, religious buildings)

Classifications:

architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1290-1224 BCE

Creator Display:

unknown Ancient Egyptian [preferred,VP]

unknown Ancient Egyptian (Ancient Egyptian cultural designation) [500202838]

Locations:

Miṣr [7016833] Africa (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: stone

	stone (worked rock) [300011176]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), <rock by form>)

Dimensions: 50,000 sq ft, 134 columns in 16 rows

Cultures:

Ancient Egyptian (preferred)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Built Works

.......... Built Works by class: religious, ceremonial, and funerary structures

Sources and Contributors:
Great Hypostyle Hall	........ [VP]
	........ Hawass and Pinch Brock, Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century (2002)
	........ Baedecker, Egypt: Upper Egypt, with Nubia as Far as the Second Cataract and the Western Cases (1892)
Hypostyle Hall	........ [VP]
	........ Baedecker, Egypt: Upper Egypt, with Nubia as Far as the Second Cataract and the Western Cases (1892)
hypostyle hall	........ [VP]
	........ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Egyptian art and architecture;" accessed 24 May 2016

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	..... Hawass and Pinch Brock, Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century (2002)