Egyptian Antiquities, Volum 1Charles Knight, 1832 |
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adytum Amasis Ammon antient antiquity appears architecture architrave Barkal base belong Belzoni block building built capital Carnak cartouches caryatid centre chamber colossal figures colossal statues columns contains cornice court deity Delta Denderah Denon described diameter dimensions Diodorus doorway dynasties east Edfou edifice Egyptian art Egyptian temple entablature 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 kings length lion Luxor magnificent Manethon mass Medinet-Abou Memnon Memphis Meroe monolith monuments Museum Nile Nubia obelisk ornament pagoda pedestal peristyle Philæ pillars plate plinth portico prænomen priests probably pronaos propyla propylon Ptolemies pyramidal racter remains river rock Roman roof round ruins Rüppel sacred sculptures Sesostris side small temple specimens sphinxes standing stone Strabo style Syene Thebes tion Typhon Upper Egypt walls whole height
Passatges populars
Pàgina 20 - 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 33 - 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 292 - 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 203 - Views in Egypt, from the original drawings in the possession of sir Robert Ainslie, taken during his embassy to Constantinople by Luigi Mayer...
Pàgina 62 - 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 131 - 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 60 - The ceiling contains the zodiac, inclosed 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...
Pàgina 119 - 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 322 - Salt, p. 404. its ornaments," says Mr. Salt, " are very boldly relieved, which, together with the hollow space running up the centre, and the patera at the top, give a lightness and elegance to the whole form that is probably unrivalled. Several other obelisks lie broken on the ground, at no great distance, one of which is of still larger dimensions.
Pàgina 243 - Norden, lying in his time with its face downwards, which must have been the cause of its preservation. I will not venture to assert who separated the bust from the rest of the body by an explosion, or by whom the bust has been turned face upwards. The place where it lay was nearly in a line with the side of the main gateway into the temple ; and, as there is another colossal head near it, there may have been one on each side of the doorway, as they are to be seen at Luxor and Carnak.