Egypt and Libya, March 19 - April 2, 2006 / 20060322e_KarnakClosedLotusColumn
Ruth Milner, rmilner plus web at bookofmarvels dot net
This column, in the hypostyle hall at Karnak,
has a capital shaped like a closed lotus flower (a kind of water
lily). It is no accident that the shapes were taken from plants that grew
along the Nile, which was - and still is - incredibly important to
Egypt.
