Identifier: nilenotesfortrav00unse (find matches)
Title: The Nile. Notes for travellers in Egypt
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis(Ernest Alfred Wallis),Sir,1857-1934
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Publisher: London, Thos. Cook & son, Ludgate Circus
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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et, the portico, A, open at the top, and supportedby twenty-four Hathor-headed columns, arranged in six rows,is reached. Leaving this hall by the doorway facing theentrance, the visitor arrives in a second hall, B, having sixcolumns and three small chambers on each side. The twochambers C and D have smaller chambers on the rightand left, E was the so-called sanctuary, and in F the emblemof the god worshipped in the temple was placed. From aroom on each side of C a staircase led up to the roof.The purposes for which the chambers were used are statedby M. Mariette in his Denderah, Descrip. Gen. du GrandTemple de cette ville. On the ceiling of the portico is thefamous Zodiac, which was thought to have been made inancient Egyptian times; the Greek inscription=A.D. 35,written in the twenty-first year of Tiberius, and the namesof the Roman Emperors, have clearly proved that, like thatat Esneh, it belongs to the Roman time. The Zodiacfrom Denderah, now at Paris, was cut out, with the permis-
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Plan of the Temple at Denderah. 278 NOTES FOR TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT. sion of Muhammad All, in 1821, from the small temple ofOsiris, generally called the Temple on the Roof. The Iseium is situated to the south of the temple ofHathor, and consists of three chambers and a corridor;near by is a pylon which was dedicated to Isis in the 31styear of Caesar Augustus. The Mammisi, (W), Pa-mestu, or house of giving birth, also built by Augustus, is the name given to thecelestial dwelling where the goddess was supposed to havebrought forth the third person of the triad which was adoredin the temple close by. The Typhonium stands to the north of the Temple of Hathor, and was so named because the god Bes ;;, figures of whom occur on its walls, was confused withTyphon; it measures about 120 feet x 60 feet, and is sur-rounded by a peristyle of twenty-two columns. The Temple of Denderah was nearly buried among therubbish which centuries had accumulated round about it,and a whole village of wretched mud

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