Note 322 — Chapter IV
Walter Armstrong translation
Description de l'Égypte, Antiquités, vol. i. p. 219. The authors of the Description générale de Thèbes noticed recesses sunk in the external face of one of the pylons at Karnak, which they believed to be intended to receive the leaves of the great door when it was open (p. 234); they also noticed traces of bronze pivots upon which the doors swung (p. 248), and they actually found a pivot of sycamore wood.