The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt . s ornamented with scenes in which Rameses leading before the gods Amen and Mut a number ofprisoners, whom he has captured in Syria and along thecoasts of the Mediterranean ; from these scenes it is evidentthat he was able to wage war by sea as well as by land. Thesecond court, which, according to M. Mariette, is one ofthe most precious which Egyptian antiquity has bequeathedto us, has a portico running round its four sides; it issupported on the north and south sides by eight Osiriscolumns, and on the east and west by five circular
The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt . s ornamented with scenes in which Rameses leading before the gods Amen and Mut a number ofprisoners, whom he has captured in Syria and along thecoasts of the Mediterranean ; from these scenes it is evidentthat he was able to wage war by sea as well as by land. Thesecond court, which, according to M. Mariette, is one ofthe most precious which Egyptian antiquity has bequeathedto us, has a portico running round its four sides; it issupported on the north and south sides by eight Osiriscolumns, and on the east and west by five circular Copts disgraced this splendid court by building asafidstone colonnade in the middle, and destroyed here, aselsewhere, much that would have been of priceless the second court was a hall of columns, on eachside of which were several small chambers, aiid beyondthat were other chambers and corridors and the sanctuary. The scenes sculptured on the inside of the second courtrepresent the wars of Rameses III. against the Libyans, in. 9 • ® • 9 O ® ® ® • @ ® ® ® 9 • m m m m ^ m m w> it
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