Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . ptians. They carved out themansions of the dead in the mountain side. Whydid they not also do the same for their gods?Nevertheless, the earliest temples we know con-. Fig. 92.—Plan of the island of Phih 96 RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE. structed entirely in the rock do not date back fartherthan the early reigns of the Eighteenth temples are generally to be found where thebelt of cultivated land is narrowest, near Beni Hasan,at Gebel Silsileh, and in Nubia. All varieties o
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . ptians. They carved out themansions of the dead in the mountain side. Whydid they not also do the same for their gods?Nevertheless, the earliest temples we know con-. Fig. 92.—Plan of the island of Phih 96 RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE. structed entirely in the rock do not date back fartherthan the early reigns of the Eighteenth temples are generally to be found where thebelt of cultivated land is narrowest, near Beni Hasan,at Gebel Silsileh, and in Nubia. All varieties of thetemples described above are found in the speos,more or less modified by local conditions. TheSpeos Artemidos is approached by a pillared portico,and it contains only a square chamber w^ith a niche at the back for the god-dess Pakhet. At Kalaat-Addah (fig. 93) a narrow,roughly worked facade (a)faces the river, and isreached by a steep flightof steps; immediately be-hind this is a hypostylehall flanked by two re-cesses (c), then a sanctuaryof two stories (d). Thechapel of Horemheb () at Gebel Silsileh iscomposed of a galleryparallel to the Nile, resting on four massive pillarscut out of the living rock ; and of a chamber openingout of the gallery at right angles.
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