. A history of art in ancient Egypt . Fig. 234.—The speos at Addeh ; Fig. 235.—The speis at Addeh. Longitudmalplan from Horeau. section ; from Horeau. of portico of square pillars cut, with the roof which they support,from the limestone rock. A narrow passage about nine feet deepleads to the naos, which is a quadrangular chamber about thirteenfeet square, with a niche in the further wall in which an image ofthe lion-headed goddess probably stood.^ The most important ofthe rock-cut chapels of Silsilis was also inaugurated by Harmhabiand restored and embellished by Rameses The hemispeos atR
. A history of art in ancient Egypt . Fig. 234.—The speos at Addeh ; Fig. 235.—The speis at Addeh. Longitudmalplan from Horeau. section ; from Horeau. of portico of square pillars cut, with the roof which they support,from the limestone rock. A narrow passage about nine feet deepleads to the naos, which is a quadrangular chamber about thirteenfeet square, with a niche in the further wall in which an image ofthe lion-headed goddess probably stood.^ The most important ofthe rock-cut chapels of Silsilis was also inaugurated by Harmhabiand restored and embellished by Rameses The hemispeos atRedesieh, in the same district, is a work of Seti I.^ Only one subterranean temple later than the nineteenth dynasty ^ Description de IEgypte, Antiquites, vol. iv. pi. 65, Fig, i. The French draughts-men thought this building was a disused quarry, and give nothing but a picturesqueview of the fa9ade. 2 Lepsius, Deiikmaler, part i. pi. 102 ; Rosellim (vol. iii. pi. 32, Fig. 3) gives aview of the interior of t4ie 2
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