pyloni-form

Updated: May 27, 2025

Before this stood the low table of offerings with a bowl for oblations, and on either side a tall incense-altar. The stele is always in the form of a door with pyloni-form cornice. Sakkâra was used as a place of burial in the latest as well as in the earliest time.

H. R. (Harry Reginald) Hall - History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery

It is perhaps a gallery cut in the cliffs at the back of the temple. The pyramid was then a dummy, made of rubble within a revetment of heavy flint nodules, which was faced with fine limestone. It was erected on a pyloni-form base with heavy cornice of the usual Egyptian pattern.

H. R. (Harry Reginald) Hall - History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery