Interior of Rock-Temple, Silsilis

Identifier: upnilehomeagainh00fair (find matches)
Title: Up the Nile, and home again. A handbook for travellers and a travel-book for the library.
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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e on the northern door is a still smaller shrinecut, in which are seated sacred figures, now too muchbattered to be readily recognised: their forms andfeatures have been wantonly mutilated by the Chris-tian iconoclasts who have at some time converted thischamber into a chapel, and painted inscriptions of asacred character on its walls. Judging from theirinjured remains, these figures of the gods do notappear to be older than the Ptolemaic and Romaneras. This entry and the northern end of the templeare depicted in our Plate XVII. Opposite the spec-tator is a range of standing figures of gods, andupon the side walls are many tablets and inscriptionsof an historic character. In one instance we seethe king defeating his enemies; in another, he isdepicted as a conqueror, carried in procession toreturn thanks to the gods, accompanied by hissoldiers and their captives. These sculptures arevery ancient, the king being the Horus who reignedfrom 1337 to 1325 b.c. ; they are generally delicately
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