Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . f-beam, and everywall is embellished with raised or engraved figures and characters,all of which are painted. The scenes which portray the victories ofthe Pharaohs, and their intercourse with the gods, are always ac-companied by explanatory inscriptions, and even the simplest orna-ments used under the new empire have some symbolical form of temple above described sometimes required to bevaried in consequence of the nature of the site. In Lower Nubiathe sandstone rocks approa
Egypt : handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai . f-beam, and everywall is embellished with raised or engraved figures and characters,all of which are painted. The scenes which portray the victories ofthe Pharaohs, and their intercourse with the gods, are always ac-companied by explanatory inscriptions, and even the simplest orna-ments used under the new empire have some symbolical form of temple above described sometimes required to bevaried in consequence of the nature of the site. In Lower Nubiathe sandstone rocks approach so near the Nile that the temples hadto be partially or wholly excavated in their sides. At Girgeh, forexample (Fig. XI), the pylons and the colonnaded courtyard werebuilt in the open air in front of the temple, while the hypostyle and ITii HISTOR? OF \i:r. were excavated Lnthe rock. Tbe larger temple of AbnSimbel, on the other hand, including the pj Ions and the colossi, isentirely excavated in the rock. During the Ptolemsean era other de-is from the traditional ae into vogue. Differences in. XI. Ground rian Girgeh. rms of the capitals, in the ornamentation, and other details, a< well as a more arbitrary disposition of tin- temple arrangements now clearly betray the invasion of Greek influences. eral of these late buildings, entirely enclosed by columns, with intervening walls rising to half the height of the columns, or even higher, so strongly resemble the Greek peripteral temples externally, that some internal similarity is involuntarily expected. The probable object of some of these edifices, namely to serve as enclos ures for sacred animals, proves them to be of purely Egyptian origin; but, owing to the abnormal disposition of the different memb difficult to conceive them to be products of purely. native art. Besides the temples in the island ofPhilse, the im- Edfu ( Apollinopolis Magna i. Ombu| Ombos), | i. Tentyris (Dendera), and Erment (He
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