The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . us parts diflered from that of other temples, and was the effect of foreigninfluence, has not been borne out by the excavations of Prof. Petrie, the little which he has broughtto light being entirely of Egyptian character. The temple is represented on the tomb of the higlipriest MarirJ (Lepsius, Denhm., iii. 94-96; cf. Ebman, ^gypten, pp. 387-390). THE FOUNDATION OF KnuiTATONU. 319 built of brick ; it was approached by a colossal gateway, and contained vasthalls, interspersed with small apartments for the accommodation of the house-hold
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . us parts diflered from that of other temples, and was the effect of foreigninfluence, has not been borne out by the excavations of Prof. Petrie, the little which he has broughtto light being entirely of Egyptian character. The temple is represented on the tomb of the higlipriest MarirJ (Lepsius, Denhm., iii. 94-96; cf. Ebman, ^gypten, pp. 387-390). THE FOUNDATION OF KnuiTATONU. 319 built of brick ; it was approached by a colossal gateway, and contained vasthalls, interspersed with small apartments for the accommodation of the house-hold, and storehouses for the necessary provisions, besides gardens which hadbeen hastily planted with rare shrubs and sycamores. Fragments of furnitureand of the roughest of the utensils contained in the different chambers are stillunearthed from among the heaps of rubbisb, and tlie cellars especially are fullof potsherds and cracked jars, on which we can still see written an indica-tion of the reign and the year when the wine they once contained was r|s^ KHUITATONU, ^ THE HORIZON OF J), THE DISK Scale V 5 Kil
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