A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . position. The old temple must, therefore, havebeen standing still in the time of the Ptolemies in good condition,and have l)een only partially rebuilt or renewed. The new templewas begun in 237 , under Euergetes I.; and the present templebuildings were finished in 142 The sacrificial court and porch,the first hall, or Khefit, and the circumjacent wall, were not erecteduntil 57 , under Neus Dionysus. The building is deeply buriedin the sand, and the huts of fellahs are built on the roof. Itsdim
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . position. The old temple must, therefore, havebeen standing still in the time of the Ptolemies in good condition,and have l)een only partially rebuilt or renewed. The new templewas begun in 237 , under Euergetes I.; and the present templebuildings were finished in 142 The sacrificial court and porch,the first hall, or Khefit, and the circumjacent wall, were not erecteduntil 57 , under Neus Dionysus. The building is deeply buriedin the sand, and the huts of fellahs are built on the roof. Itsdimensions are large. The line of axis, drawn from north to south,is 450 feet long. The pylons are 212 feet in width, and 125 feet TEMPLE OF HORUS AT El)F(J. 233 high. The columns of the hypostyle are forty feet high, six feetthick, and have a circumference around the abacus of the capital ofthirty-seven feet. The architraves are composed of blocks eighteenfeet in length. The pylons, once adorned with lofty flagstaffs ofacacia, the symbols of Isis and Nephthys, the protectors of Horus,. Fig. 54. — The open Vestibiilt» of the reiuiiU ;it the rear of the pylons. \ie\v froiii tlie intorii^r, contain the treasuries and the stairways to the roof, which wasreached also from the temple kitchen on the side of the secondhypostyle. The sacred linen was whitened on the roof. Theportal, fifty feet high, had doors of acacia wood decorated withcopper. Besides the four gates of the surrounding wall, there isstill another, but smaller, on the eastern side, leading into a sub- 234 THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER. terranean spring-house, or klmumt. The entire temple is adornedwith sculptures. The inscriptions together form an encyclopaedia ofreligious and secular texts, astronomical and geographical treatises,calendars, genealogies, hymns, diagrams, and mystical invocations,lists of the nomes and tributary lands and princes, catalogues of thereal estate belonging to the temple, lists of
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