. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . THE OASIS OF AMON AMD THE SPRING OF THE SUN. with vermilion, and of shaving off the hair from their heads,with the exception of one lock which hung over the rightear. The Theban Pharaohs had formerly placed garrisonsin the most important oases, and had consecrated templesthere to their god Amon. One of these sanctuaries, builtclose to an intermittent spring, which gave forth alter-nately hot and cold water, had risen to great eminence,and the oracle of these Ammonians was a centre ofpilgrimage from far and near. The first Libyans who
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . THE OASIS OF AMON AMD THE SPRING OF THE SUN. with vermilion, and of shaving off the hair from their heads,with the exception of one lock which hung over the rightear. The Theban Pharaohs had formerly placed garrisonsin the most important oases, and had consecrated templesthere to their god Amon. One of these sanctuaries, builtclose to an intermittent spring, which gave forth alter-nately hot and cold water, had risen to great eminence,and the oracle of these Ammonians was a centre ofpilgrimage from far and near. The first Libyans who cameinto contact with the Greeks, the Asbystes and theGiligammes, received the new-comers kindly, giving them 1 Drawn by Boudier, from a a < a THE WEALTH OF GYRENE 443 £lJli:yruL- ■^3ii ■% -^^ ]ylaq,lu__. Awrtonians src^ ^^ tJ„..,j-?. ■ LIBYA inlhoVI^
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