The British Museum: Egyptian AntiquitiesCharles Knight, 1832 - 448 pàgines |
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Ammon antient antiquity appears architecture architrave Barkal base belong Belzoni block building built called capital Carnak cartouches caryatid centre chamber colossal figures colossal statues colossus columns contains cornice court deity Denderah Denon described diameter dimensions Diodorus doorway drawing Edfou edifice Egypt Egyptian art Egyptian temple entrance erected Ethiopian excavation face feet high feet long four French frieze front granite Greek Hamilton head Heeren Heliopolis Herodotus hieroglyphics Hindoo inches inscription Ipsambul Isis kind kings length lion Luxor mass Memnon Memphis Meroe monolith monuments Museum Nile Nubia obelisk original ornament pagoda pedestal peristyle Philæ pillars placed plate portico prænomen priests probably pronaos propyla propylon Ptolemies pyramidal top quarries racter remains remarks river rock Roman roof round ruins Rüppel sacred says sculptures Sesostris shaft side specimens sphinx standing stone Strabo style Syene Thebes tion tombs Typhon upper Upper Egypt walls whole height
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Pàgina 18 - Behold the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we : Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Pàgina 31 - And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land : for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
Pàgina 300 - The workman having found a portion of the rock sufficiently extensive, and situated near the edge of the part already quarried, lays bare the upper surface, and marks on it a line in the direction of the intended separation, along which a groove is cut with a chisel about a couple of inches in depth. Above this groove a narrow line of fire is then kindled, and maintained till the rock below is thoroughly heated, immediately on which a line of men and women, each provided with a pot...
Pàgina 288 - NEBUCHADNEZZAR the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Pàgina 60 - It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.
Pàgina 129 - It is a hundred and seventeen feet wide, and eighty-six feet high ; the height from the top of the cornice to the top of the door being sixty-six feet six inches, and the height of the door twenty feet. There are four enormous sitting colossi, the largest in Egypt or Nubia, except the great Sphinx at the pyramids, to which they approach in the proportion of near two-thirds.
Pàgina 131 - ... feet, not including the caps, which are about fourteen feet. There are only two of these colossi in sight, one is still buried under the sand, and the other, which is near the door, is half fallen down, and buried also. On the top of the door is a colossal figure of Osiris twenty feet high, with two colossal hieroglyphic figures, one on each side, looking towards it. On the top of the temple is a cornice with hieroglyphics, a torus and frize under it.
Pàgina 117 - The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
Pàgina 58 - The ceiling contains the zodiac, enclosed by two long female figures, which extend from one side to the other of it. The walls are divided into several square compartments, each containing figures representing deities, and priests in the act of offering or immolating victims. On all the walls, columns, ceiling, or architraves, there is no where a space of two feet that is not covered with some figures of human beings, animals, plants, emblems of agriculture, or of religious ceremony. Wherever the...
Pàgina 385 - It is impossible," says Mr. Hamilton, " to view and to reflect upon a picture so copious and so detailed as this I have just described, without fancying that I saw here the original of many of Homer's battles, the portrait of some of the historical narratives of Herodotus, and one of the principal groundworks of the description of Diodorus : and, to complete the gratification, we felt that, had the artist been better acquainted with the rules of perspective, the performance might have done credit...