. A history of art in ancient Egypt . That of Derri(Figs. 240 and 241) is moresimple. There are neither dromosnor pylon, properly speaking, andonly four caryatid pillars ; butthere is an open court with ahypostyle hall and a sanctuary cut in the rock. At the back of ^ This description has been mainly taken from the plate given by Prisse {Histoirede VArt Egyptie/i, vol. i.). There are discrepancies, however, between it and boththe inscription of Isambert and the plan of Horeau {Panorama dEgypie etNubie),discrepancies which may probably be referred to the bad condition of the structuralpart of t
. A history of art in ancient Egypt . That of Derri(Figs. 240 and 241) is moresimple. There are neither dromosnor pylon, properly speaking, andonly four caryatid pillars ; butthere is an open court with ahypostyle hall and a sanctuary cut in the rock. At the back of ^ This description has been mainly taken from the plate given by Prisse {Histoirede VArt Egyptie/i, vol. i.). There are discrepancies, however, between it and boththe inscription of Isambert and the plan of Horeau {Panorama dEgypie etNubie),discrepancies which may probably be referred to the bad condition of the structuralpart of the building. According to Prisses measurements the dromos, fromits commencement to the foot of the first pylon, was about fifty-five yards long,and the rest of the temple, to the back of the niche, was about as much rock-cut part was only about ten yards deep. - The resemblance between Prisses plan of Gherf-Hossein and Horeaus plan ofWadi-Asseboua is so great as to suggest that one of the two writers may havemade a Fig. 238.—Plan of the hemisptos ofGherf-Hcssein ; from Prisse. The Temple under the New Empire. 409 the sanctuary there is a stone bench upon which three statueswere seated. The two temples of Ipsamboul are so well known and havebeen so often illustrated and described, that they need not detainus long. The chief thing to be noticed here is that they arewithout any external and constructed part, and that from their Ai
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