. A history of art in ancient Egypt . 29. The term noos has generally been applied tothese monuments, but it seems to us to lack precision. The Greeks used the wordmo? or reojs to signify the temple as a whole. Abd-el-Latif describes with greatadmiration a monolithic tabernacle which existed in his time among the ruins ofMemphis, and was called by the Egyptians the Green Chamber. Makrizi tells usthat it was broken up in 1349. {Description de VEgypte, Ant., vol. v. pp. 572, 573.) 3 Herodotus, ii. 175. VOL. I. Z Z :54 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. frreat sanctuary in order that he might see
. A history of art in ancient Egypt . 29. The term noos has generally been applied tothese monuments, but it seems to us to lack precision. The Greeks used the wordmo? or reojs to signify the temple as a whole. Abd-el-Latif describes with greatadmiration a monolithic tabernacle which existed in his time among the ruins ofMemphis, and was called by the Egyptians the Green Chamber. Makrizi tells usthat it was broken up in 1349. {Description de VEgypte, Ant., vol. v. pp. 572, 573.) 3 Herodotus, ii. 175. VOL. I. Z Z :54 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. frreat sanctuary in order that he might see the god who residesin Ha-benben, face to face. Standing alone, he chew the bolt,and swung open the folding doors ; he looked upon the face of hisfather Ra in Ha-benben, upon the boat Mad, of Ra, and theboat Seket, of Shou ; then he closed the doors, he set sealingclay upon them and impressed it with the royal signet. ^ From the description of Strabo we should guess that theEgyptian temple ended with the sanctuary. Such was not the. Fig. 2IO.—Portable tabernacle of painted wood, 19th dynasty. In the Turin Museum. case however. Like most of the Greek temples, the Egyptiantemple had its further chambers which served nearly the samepurposes as the oTriaOcFjo/jiot of the Greeks. Thus in the Temple ofKhons, the sanctuary opens, at the rear, into a second hypostylehall which is smaller than the first and has its roof supported ^ Translated by Maspero, Histoire Ancienue, p. 385. The wliole inscription hasbeen tfcinslated into English by the Rev. T. C. Cook, and published in vol. ii. ofJiecords of the Past.—Ed. The Temple under the New Empire. 155 by only four columns instead of eight. Upon this hall openfour small and separate chambers which fill up the wholespace between it and the main walls. Similar general arrangements to those of the Temple of Khonsare to be found in even the largest temples. The second hypostylehall is however much larger and the chambers to which it givesac
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