The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . 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
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . 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 THE PYLONS OF ThCtmOSIS HI. AND HAKMHABI AT KARSAK. inundation the water flowing into the courts, transformed them until recentlyinto lakes, whither the flocks and herds of the village resorted in the heat ofthe day to bathe or quench their thirst. Pictures of mysterious events nevermeant for the public gaze now^ display their secrets in the light of the sun,and reveal to the eyes of the profane the supernatural events which precededthe birth of the king. On the northern side an avenue of sphinxes and crio-sphinxes led to the gates of old Thebes.^ At present most of these creaturesare buried under the ruins of the modern town, or covered by the earth whichoverlies the ancient road; but a few are still visible, broken and shapeless frombarbarous usage, and hardly retaining any traces of the inscriptions in whichAmenothes claimed them boastingly as his work. Triumphal processions pass-ing along this route from Luxor to Karnak would at length reach the greatcourt before the temple of Amo
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