Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . PLAN OF THE TEMPLE OF EDFOU. Ivoman or Ptolemaic period, and consequently in the decline ofEgyptian art. It is a large and massive building, overcharged withhieroglyphic sculpture and ornament, evincing in its profusion and 22 HANDBOOK OF ARCHEOLOGY. gracelessness the decadence of the Egyptian style. It has no fore-court, nor propylons. Its columns terminate in a capital represent-ing the head of the goddess Athor, repeated four times, surmountedby a quadrangular Grecian.—Temples in Greece were very numerous. Cities erected
Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . PLAN OF THE TEMPLE OF EDFOU. Ivoman or Ptolemaic period, and consequently in the decline ofEgyptian art. It is a large and massive building, overcharged withhieroglyphic sculpture and ornament, evincing in its profusion and 22 HANDBOOK OF ARCHEOLOGY. gracelessness the decadence of the Egyptian style. It has no fore-court, nor propylons. Its columns terminate in a capital represent-ing the head of the goddess Athor, repeated four times, surmountedby a quadrangular Grecian.—Temples in Greece were very numerous. Cities erectedthem to their tutelary deities : Athens to Minerva, Ephesus toDiana, &c, and the inhabitants of the country to the rustic TEMPLES. 23 divinities. The temples of the Greeks never equalled those ofEgypt in extent, size was not the object with the Greeks. Theirgenius was shown more in the exquisite perfection of architecturaldesign and sculpturesque ornament employed in their religiouserections. All within the sacred fence, irepiftoXos, which enclosedthe temple properly so called, the habitations of the priests, andground sometimes of considerable extent, was styled the Hieron(tepov), and also re/xevos. The naos, cell a or temple, properly socalled, was generally in the shape of a parallelogram. Sometimes acourt, surrounded by a portico or colonnade, was placed before it,as at the temple of I sis, at Pompeii, and at the temple of Serapis, atPozzuoli. A portico surrounded the cella, the extent of whichdepended on the const
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