The Century illustrated monthly magazine . PROSTRATE PRIESTS.(FROM A BAS-RELIEF BLOCK OF THE FESTIVAL HALL.) 348 BUBASTIS: AN HISTORICAL OSORKON II. MAKING OFFERINGS TO BAST, WITH How long it continued to flourish after this,it is impossible to say. E^xcept the ruins ofsome small structure — possibly a fort—builtwith Roman bricks, no trace of the Romanperiod, no fragment of Latin inscription, noteven a Roman coin, was found. Yet it wouldbe rash to conclude from merely negative evi-dence that a temple so exceptionally beauti-ful, so popular, and within so easy a distanceof Alexandria, w
The Century illustrated monthly magazine . PROSTRATE PRIESTS.(FROM A BAS-RELIEF BLOCK OF THE FESTIVAL HALL.) 348 BUBASTIS: AN HISTORICAL OSORKON II. MAKING OFFERINGS TO BAST, WITH How long it continued to flourish after this,it is impossible to say. E^xcept the ruins ofsome small structure — possibly a fort—builtwith Roman bricks, no trace of the Romanperiod, no fragment of Latin inscription, noteven a Roman coin, was found. Yet it wouldbe rash to conclude from merely negative evi-dence that a temple so exceptionally beauti-ful, so popular, and within so easy a distanceof Alexandria, was already abandoned to de-cay in the time of the Ctesars. Whatever itscondition, we know, however, that it musthave shared the fate of its fellows when thenational religion was proscribed by the edictof Theodosius, a. d. 389. All were alike givenover into the hands of the spoilers. Statues ofkings and gods were flung into the Nile andthe canals ; vessels of gold and silver werecast into the melting-pot; sacred groves were THREF, PROCESSIONS. (BAS-RELIEF FROM FESTIVAL HALL.) felled; mud-built huts sprang up like fungiwithin the sacred
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