. Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers. e of this road is a Chapel of Osiris-Plah (closed), with well-preserved painted reliefs; the chapel wasbuilt by the Ethiopian Kings Tanutamun and Taharka (25th Dyn.).From the gate we proceed amidst figures of recumbent rams,sphinxes, and fragments of statues to the — Temple of Mut, built by Amenophis III. A Gateteay (PI. A) admits us to a large Court, in the middle of whichwas a colonnade. Outside the gateway are pillars with figures of the godBes. On the gateway are lengthy inscriptions of the Ptolemaic period(hymns to Mut) and an inscription of
. Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers. e of this road is a Chapel of Osiris-Plah (closed), with well-preserved painted reliefs; the chapel wasbuilt by the Ethiopian Kings Tanutamun and Taharka (25th Dyn.).From the gate we proceed amidst figures of recumbent rams,sphinxes, and fragments of statues to the — Temple of Mut, built by Amenophis III. A Gateteay (PI. A) admits us to a large Court, in the middle of whichwas a colonnade. Outside the gateway are pillars with figures of the godBes. On the gateway are lengthy inscriptions of the Ptolemaic period(hymns to Mut) and an inscription of Ramses III., who restored the court contains numerous seated figures of the lion-headed goddessSekhmet, dedicated by Amenophis III. On several of these Shoshenk placed his own name in place of that of Amenophis. — Farther onis a second Colonnaded Court, with statues of Sekhmet and a black granitefigure of Amenophis III. — The inner rooms, which are likewise adjoinedby statues of Sekhmet, are in a very ruinous ToflrnxAviih llSiC
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