pyramidions

The Great Capstone was actually made up of seven pieces, its pyramidal form cut into horizontal strips, creating six pieces that were trapezoidal in shape and one, the topmost piece, that was itself pyramidal small pyramids such as this were called pyramidions.

Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

The Great Capstone was actually made up of seven pieces, its pyramidal form cut into horizontal strips, creating six pieces that were trapezoidal in shape and one, the topmost piece, that was itself pyramidal small pyramids such as this were called pyramidions.

Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

The Great Capstone was actually made up of seven pieces, its pyramidal form cut into horizontal strips, creating six pieces that were trapezoidal in shape and one, the topmost piece, that was itself pyramidal small pyramids such as this were called pyramidions.

Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

Scattered about the slope were detached buildings, consisting of marble monoliths resting upon double bases and crowned with carved cornices, or of truncated pyramids and pyramidions.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

In front of the palace stretched a vast esplanade reaching down to the river by a staircase placed at the angles; in the centre an avenue of ram-headed sphinxes perpendicular to the Nile, led to a huge pylon, in front of which stood two colossal statues and a pair of obelisks, the pyramidions of which, rising above the cornice, showed their flesh-coloured points against the uniform blue of the sky.

The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt Th��ophile Gautier 1841

The swarming flood grew and still grew: on the knees of the colossi, on the cornices of the palaces, on the backs of the sphinxes, on the entablatures of the temples, on the shoulders of the gods, on the pyramidions of the obelisks, the hideous reptiles, with swollen backs and indrawn feet, had taken up their places.

The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt Th��ophile Gautier 1841

Out of the mass of bluish shadow uprose the obelisks with their sharp pyramidions; the pylons, giant doors traversed by rays; high cornices; the colossi rising shoulder-high above the sea of buildings; the propylæa; the pillars, with capitals swelled out like huge granite flowers; the corners of temples and of palaces, brought out by a silvery touch of light.

The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt Th��ophile Gautier 1841

The bank was only a few strokes off; the vast shadow of the pylons and the huge walls of the Northern Palace -- the dark pile of which was faintly seen surmounted by the pyramidions of six obelisks through the violet blue of the night -- spread immense and formidable over the river, and sheltered

The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt Th��ophile Gautier 1841