. Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers. ong known as the Gkanitk Temple, dis-covered by Mariette in 1853 and almost completely excavated bythe Von Sieglin expedition in 1909-10. This was the sanctuaryerected as an entrance to the causeway which ascended from thevalley to the mortuary temple and pyramid of Khephren. It is afine example of the simple and majestic architecture of a periodwhen the art of working the hardest kinds of stone had alreadyattained perfection. 136 Route 6. PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH. Khephrens Temple. The total structure is 147 ft. square aud 43 ft. in height; exter-nally
. Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers. ong known as the Gkanitk Temple, dis-covered by Mariette in 1853 and almost completely excavated bythe Von Sieglin expedition in 1909-10. This was the sanctuaryerected as an entrance to the causeway which ascended from thevalley to the mortuary temple and pyramid of Khephren. It is afine example of the simple and majestic architecture of a periodwhen the art of working the hardest kinds of stone had alreadyattained perfection. 136 Route 6. PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH. Khephrens Temple. The total structure is 147 ft. square aud 43 ft. in height; exter-nally the walls batter. The faijade, on the E. side, was pierced bytwo huge portals (now closed), surrounded by monumental royalinscriptions. The present entrance is from the ancient Causeway(PI. a). We descend the corridor (PI. b) to the Antechamber (PI. c),constructed of red granite, in which the passages leading from thetwo portals unite. Here is also the well (PL dj, now full of water,In which Marlette found the famous statue of Khephren now in. 5 L the museum at Cairo (p. 83). We return through the large door-way in the central axis of the building into the main HypoityleHall (PI. f), which is shaped like an inverted T, the main arm being57 ft. long and 2972 ft- broad, and the cross arm 82 ft. long and23 ft. broad. Sixteen monolithic granite pillars divide the mainarm into three aisles, the cross arm into two. The stone beams ofthe architrave still preserve their sharp edges. These rooms werelighted by means of smaU oblique openings, still to be seen in theupper part of the side-walls. Against the walls originally stood 23colossal royal statues, the bases of which have left rectangular markson the pavement. Several of these statues are now in Cairo. —From the angle of the hypostyle hall a dark passage leads to agroup of Storerooms (PI. g), arranged in two stories with three roomsin each. Thence we return to the entrance-corridor (PI. b), quit itby a door on the left, a
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