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Abydos alabaster Amenhotep Amenhotep III ancient bas-reliefs Beni Hassan blocks body Boulak Museum bricks bronze building built Campaniform capital cartouches chamber chapel colour columns cornice court covered decorated Denderah door Edfoo Egypt Egyptian Eighteenth Dynasty El Kab enclosure erected excavated façade face Fayûm feet high feet in height figures flat four front funerary Gizeh gods gold granite ground Hathor Hatshepsu head hieroglyphs Horemheb hypostyle hall inscriptions Karnak Khafra king limestone lotus lower Luxor masonry mastaba Medinet Haboo Memphis monuments mummy Nile obelisks oblong ornamented painted passage Pharaohs pillars placed portico pylon pyramid pyramid of Unas Queen Rameses Rameses II Ramesseum represented roof rows royal Sakkarah sanctuary sarcophagus scenes sculptured Seti shaft side sometimes Soul sphinxes square standing statues statuettes stone supported surface surmounted temple Theban Thebes thickness Thothmes tomb Translator's note vases vault vertical walls wooden
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Page 88 - ... decoration does not form a connected whole, and that, although many series of scenes must undoubtedly contain the development of an historic idea or a religious dogma, yet that others are merely strung together without any necessary link. At Luxor, and again at the Ramesseum, each face of the pylon is a battle-field on which may be studied, almost day for day, the campaign of Rameses II. against the Kheta, which took place in the fifth year of his reign. There we see the Egyptian camp attacked...
Page 144 - ... aid it in surmounting the difficulties of the journey. Great doors, each guarded by a gigantic serpent, were stationed at intervals, and led to an immense hall full of flame and fire, peopled by hideous monsters and executioners whose office it was to torture the damned. Then came more dark and...
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Page 144 - ... hideous monsters and executioners, whose office it was to torture the damned. Then came more dark and narrow passages, more blind gropings in the gloom, more strife with malevolent genii, and again the welcoming of the propitious gods. At midnight began the upward journey towards the eastern region of the world ; and in the morning, having reached the confines of the Land of Darkness, the sun emerged from the east to light another day.
Page 83 - ... important and varied scenes being suspended as it were between earth and heaven on the sides of the chambers and the Pylons. These scenes illustrated the official relations which subsisted between Egypt and the gods. . . . The sun, travelling from east to west, divided the universe into two worlds — the world of the north and the world of the south. The Temple, like the universe, was double, and an imaginary line, passing through the axis of the sanctuary, divided it into two temples — the...