The Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum: Monuments, Obelisks, Temples, Sphinxes, Sculpture, Statues, Paintings, Pyramids, Mummies, Papyrus, and the Rosetta Stone, المجلد 1M. A. Nattali, 1846 |
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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 dimensions Diodorus doorway drawing east 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 Medinet-Abou Memnon Memphis Meroe monolith monuments Museum Nile Nubia obelisk origin ornament pagoda pedestal peristyle Philæ pillars placed plate plinth portico prænomen priests probably pronaos propyla propylon Ptolemies 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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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 290 - 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 58 - 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 387 - Herodotus, and one of the, principal ground-works of the descriptions of Diodorus : and, to complete the gratification, we felt that had the artist been better acquainted with the rules and use of perspective, the performance might have, done credit to the genius of a Michael Angelo, or a, Julio Romano.
الصفحة 302 - ... 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 full of cold water, suddenly sweep off the ashes, and pour the water into the heated groove, when the rock at once splits with a clean fracture. Square blocks of six feet in the side,'...
الصفحة 176 - ... obscures the interior of the temple, which is dimly lighted only by the entrances, and the gloomy appearance of the gigantic stone figures ranged along the wall, and hewn, like the whole temple, out of the living rock, joined to the strange uncertainty that hangs over the history of...