. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. -Oinbo (No. 27.) (Ombos) aretwo temjilis, and a stone gate-way in a crude brick wall onthe cast side of the inclosurc, .?showing an earlier temple. At Assnnan ( No. 28.) (Syene), ruins of a small Roman temple,columns, and gi-anite quarries, in one of vvhich is a i)roken obelisk. Island of Elephanta,opposite to Assonan, is a part of the Nilometer, with Greek inscriptions relating to the riseof the Nile; a quay. :aiil n granite gateway. At Phihe (No.
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. -Oinbo (No. 27.) (Ombos) aretwo temjilis, and a stone gate-way in a crude brick wall onthe cast side of the inclosurc, .?showing an earlier temple. At Assnnan ( No. 28.) (Syene), ruins of a small Roman temple,columns, and gi-anite quarries, in one of vvhich is a i)roken obelisk. Island of Elephanta,opposite to Assonan, is a part of the Nilometer, with Greek inscriptions relating to the riseof the Nile; a quay. :aiil n granite gateway. At Phihe (No. 29.) temples (fg. 55.), andruins. On the Inland of Biggeh, opposite Pliilpe. a small ruined tem))le, tablets, &c. 92. In Nubia, temples at Z)a/;or/( No. 30. ) ( Paremhole), and at Kahbsheh (No. 31.)(Talmis). ap])arei)tly thrown down before it was completed. To the north of the last atJJayt el Welli/a small but interesting rock-cut temple, of the time of Uameses II. Atemple at Dendoor (No. 32. V, and one rock-cut, of the lime of Raineses II., at «f/yn (Tutzis), un west bank. .At JfaJi/ Sbuou/t (No. 33.), a temide of tlie same.
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