. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . THE COLUMiT OF TAHAEQA, AT KAENAK. Ethiopian sculptors and painters scrupulously followed thetraditions of the mother-country, and only a few insignificant 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Beato, BUILDINGS OP TAHARQA IN ETHIOPIA 143 details of ethnic type or costume enable us to detect aslight difference between their works and those of pureEgyptian art. At the other extremity of Napata, on thewestern side of the Holy Mountain, Taharqa excavated in. THE HBMISPEOS OF HATHOE AKD bIsC, AT GEBEL-BAEKAL. the cliff a rock-hewn
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . THE COLUMiT OF TAHAEQA, AT KAENAK. Ethiopian sculptors and painters scrupulously followed thetraditions of the mother-country, and only a few insignificant 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Beato, BUILDINGS OP TAHARQA IN ETHIOPIA 143 details of ethnic type or costume enable us to detect aslight difference between their works and those of pureEgyptian art. At the other extremity of Napata, on thewestern side of the Holy Mountain, Taharqa excavated in. THE HBMISPEOS OF HATHOE AKD bIsC, AT GEBEL-BAEKAL. the cliff a rock-hewn shrine, which he dedicated to Hathorand Bisii (Bes), the patron of jollity and happiness, and thegod of music and of war. Bisii, who was at first relegatedto the lowest rank among the crowd of genii adored by thepeople, had gradually risen to the highest place in the 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a Hthograph in Caillaud 144 THE POWER OP ASSYRIA AT ITS ZENITH hierarchy of the gods, and his images predominated inchapels destined to represent the cradle of the infant gods,and the sacred spots where goddesses gave birth to theirdivine offspring. The portico erected in front of the pylonhad a central avenue of pUlars, against which stood
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