The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . y out of the Mariette, Karnali, Texte, i>p. 4, 1-t, 15. Eamses II. placed a certain number of thorn in tlieBmall temple of Meshtikh (Maspero, Etudes de Mythologie et dArch€ologie Egypiiennes, vol. i. p. 219).- Drawn by Boudler, from .i photograph by Beato, taken iu the autumn of 1893. TEE GREAT TEMPLE OF AMON AT KAIiNAK. 307 perpendicular, from the earth having given way beneath them, and a smallnumber only still perfect and in situ. At Luxor Amenothes demolished thesmall temple with which the sovereigns of the XII and XIII dynasties
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . y out of the Mariette, Karnali, Texte, i>p. 4, 1-t, 15. Eamses II. placed a certain number of thorn in tlieBmall temple of Meshtikh (Maspero, Etudes de Mythologie et dArch€ologie Egypiiennes, vol. i. p. 219).- Drawn by Boudler, from .i photograph by Beato, taken iu the autumn of 1893. TEE GREAT TEMPLE OF AMON AT KAIiNAK. 307 perpendicular, from the earth having given way beneath them, and a smallnumber only still perfect and in situ. At Luxor Amenothes demolished thesmall temple with which the sovereigns of the XII and XIII dynasties hadbeen satisfied, and replaced it by a structure wliich is still one of the finestyet remaining of the times of the Pharaohs. The naos rose sheer above thewaters of the Nile, indeed its cornices projected over the river, and a stair-case at the south side allowed the priests and devotees to embark directlyfrom the rear of the building. The sanctuary was a single chamber, withan opening on its side, but so completely shut out from the daylight by the. PAKT OF THE AVENUE OF RAMS, BETWEEN THE TESirLES OK AMON AND long dark hall at whose extremity it was placed as to be in perpetual was flanked by narrow, dimly lighted chambers, and was approached througha pronaos with four rows of columns, a vast court surrounded with porticoesoccupying tlie foreground. At the present time the thick walls which en-closed the entire building are nearly level with the ground, half the ceilingshave crumbled away, air and light penetrate into every nook, and during the Cf. Maspero, Dawn of Civilization, pp. 508, 530; Amenothes III. said that he had restored theAjnt-iisit (Grkbaut, FouHleedeLouxor,m the Bulletin deVInditul iriyplicn, 1889, vol. x. pp. :!35, 330). Drawn by Faucher-Gudlu, from a photograph Ijy Bcato, taken in 18S7. 308 THE EIGHTEENTH THEBAN DYNASTY.
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