. A history of art in ancient Egypt . t ranges are still standing and still afford supportto a part of the ceiling. This latter is painted with golden stars ^ Strabo, xvii. i. 42. In another passage (xvii. i. 46) he seems to place theMemnonium close to the two famous colossi. He would, therefore, seem rather tohave had in view an Amenophium, the remains of which have been discovered inthe immediate neighbourhood of the two colossi. The French savants suspected thisto be the case, but they often defer to the opinions of their immediate predecessorsamong Egyptian travellers. (^Description genera
. A history of art in ancient Egypt . t ranges are still standing and still afford supportto a part of the ceiling. This latter is painted with golden stars ^ Strabo, xvii. i. 42. In another passage (xvii. i. 46) he seems to place theMemnonium close to the two famous colossi. He would, therefore, seem rather tohave had in view an Amenophium, the remains of which have been discovered inthe immediate neighbourhood of the two colossi. The French savants suspected thisto be the case, but they often defer to the opinions of their immediate predecessorsamong Egyptian travellers. (^Description generale de Thebes, section iii.) 2 This pylon stands in the foreground of our view (Fig. 220). The face whichis here shown was formerly covered—as we may judge from the parts which remain—with pictures of battles; and that we might not have to actually invent scenes ofcombat for our restoration, we have borrowed the ornamentation of the first pylonof tlie Temple of Khons. The scale of our cut is too small, however, to show The Temple under the New Empire. Z11 upon a blue ground, In imitation of the vault of heaven. Theside walls have entirely disappeared.^ This hall resembles that at Karnak, both in its plan and in itsgeneral appearance. The mode of lighting is the same ; the si -. ( :3^ I < ^^^ ?•vy/\*l\^^*v^ \\ \ mwi ^ \^#§.^ =*. i =i^ Sftf ^%:jnhi S K^ %^iiii#f) ^^^liiliilHtefe tf-. r^:r^.. *? ^^ m^;^f0f ^-^i^ r ,^ I W//^/v //-<iM^ il iM Mil ^
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