Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . utchambers. The work is very fine, and the rock iseverywhere masked with blocks of sandstone or oflimestone. The polygonal columns, of which there are suchextraordinary numbers, are eight-sided, instead of * E. Naville, The Eleventh Dynasty Temple at Deir cl Bahari, vol. Exploration Fund, 1910. 102 RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE. sixteen-sided, as in the neighbouring temple. Duringthe Eighteenth Dynasty the building was invaded bya Pharaoh, probably Thothmes III., who constructe
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . utchambers. The work is very fine, and the rock iseverywhere masked with blocks of sandstone or oflimestone. The polygonal columns, of which there are suchextraordinary numbers, are eight-sided, instead of * E. Naville, The Eleventh Dynasty Temple at Deir cl Bahari, vol. Exploration Fund, 1910. 102 RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE. sixteen-sided, as in the neighbouring temple. Duringthe Eighteenth Dynasty the building was invaded bya Pharaoh, probably Thothmes III., who constructedat the north end a chapel to Hathor, and cut a shrinefor her in the rock. The shrine remained forgottenand untouched for many centuries till its discoveryin 1906. It was avaulted chamber,containing thecarved figure of acow, the sacredanimal of the god-dess Hathor. Bothcell and cow havebeen removed toCairo, where they can be studiedat leisure in the Museum. The Egyptians had anothertype of temple that may rankbetween the hemi-speos andthe detached temple. This isthe temple that backed onto the mountains without. entermg it. The great granite Fig. 98.—Plan of templeof Seti I., Abydos. temple at Gizeh and the templeof Seti I. at Abydos are two good examples ofthis kind. The first has already been described(p. 73). The area of the second (fig. 98) was cutout of a compact low belt of sand which dividesthe desert plain. The temple was buried almostto the roof on the west and north sides, the wallsscarcely rose above the ground level, and the stairs ABYDOS. 103 that led to the roof led also to the top of the front of the temple that stood out clear hadnothing peculiar about it—two pylons, two courts,and a shallow portico with square pillars. Butfrom this point the arrangements were of one hypostyle hall there were two,separated from each other by a wall with sevendoors ; neither of^ them have a central nave, and thesanctuary opens immediately on to the s
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