Hand-book for travellers in (lower and upper) Egypt [afterw.] Handbook for Egypt and the Sudan. Being a new ed. of 'Modern Egypt and Thebes' by sir G. Wilkinson, Teil 2 |
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Seite 458 - ... there any marks of the wedge or other instrument which should have been employed for reducing those fragments to the state in which they now appear. The fissures seen across the head and in the pedestal are the work of a later period, when some of the pieces were cut for millstones by the Arabs. To say that this is the largest statue in Egypt will convey no idea of the gigantic size or enormous weight of a mass which, from an approximate calculation, exceeded, when entire, nearly three times...
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Seite 403 - erected a wall along the eastern side of Egypt, to guard against the incursions of the Syrians and Arabs, which extended from Pelusium, by the desert, to Heliopolis, being in length 1500 stadia...
Seite 378 - I visited this place, and found it to surpass description ; for if all the walls and other great works of the Greeks could be put together in one, they would not equal, either for labour or expense, this Labyrinth; and yet the temple of Ephesus is a building worthy of note, and so is the temple of Samos.
Seite 463 - Gallus, the governor of Egypt, speaks of the " upper part " having been " broken and hurled down," as he was told, "by the shock of an earthquake," and says that he heard the sound, but could "not affirm whether it proceeded from the pedestal or from the statue itself, or even from some of those who stood near its base...
Seite 440 - Denderah ; and from its superior state of preservation it deserves a distinguished rank among the most interesting monuments of Egypt. For though its columns, considered singly, may be said to have a heavy, perhaps a barbarous, appearance, the portico is doubtless a noble specimen of architecture : nor is the succeeding hall devoid of beauty and symmetry of proportion. The preservation of its roof also adds greatly to the beauty, as well as to the interest, of the portico ; and many of those in the...
Seite 424 - John had constructed with his own hand a humble cell, in which he had dwelt above 50 years, without opening his door, without seeing the face of a woman, and without tasting any food that had been prepared by fire or any human art. Five days of the week he spent in prayer and meditation, but on Saturdays and Sundays he regularly opened a small window, and gave audience to the crowd of suppliants who successively flowed from every part of the Christian world. The eunuch of Theodosius approached the...
Seite 516 - Denderah, we are also enabled to ascertain the site of a grand hall which formed part of the building. The sacred precincts of the temples were surrounded by a strong Crudebrick Enclosure, much of which still remains; but from its crumbling materials, and the quantity of sand that has accumulated about it, the buildings now appear to stand in a hollow; though, on examination, the level of the area is found not to extend below the base of the wall. On the eastern face of this enclosure is a stone...
Seite 502 - Eotennoo were a Syrian people. Alighting from his car, he awaits their answer, which is brought by an Egyptian officer, who on his return salutes his sovereign, and relates the success of his mission. In the third compartment, the hero, who in the heat of the fight had alighted from his chariot, gives proofs of his physical powers as well as his courage, and grasps beneath each arm two captive chiefs ; while others, bound with ropes, follow to adorn his triumph, and grace the offerings of his victory...