Tentpole Columns

 

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Tent-pole columns carved from stone seem to have been used rarely. The wooden originals would have been used to support structures such as military tents, shrines and so on. The only surviving examples in stone can be found in the Festival Temple of Tuthmosis III at Karnak.

 
Festival Temple, Tuthmosis III, Karnak, Luxor