Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.

  • Karl Otfried Müller
Date:
1852
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    /the temple of the oracle according to Heeren) of labyrinthine design, and Naga, where there is a temple of Ammon with alleys of sphinxes. Below the confluence of the rivers are the ruins on Mount Barkal and near Merawe, formerly Napata. These structures were partly erected by Egyptian rulers (the oldest name is Amenophis IL), partly much later,'therefore not in the severe style of Egyptian art in architecture and sculpture; the queens, who sometimes appear with a king and sometimes alone, in warlike or sacerdotal transactions, are probably of the Oandaces who reigned here from the Macedonian period down to the 4th century of the Christian era, and besides Napata also possessed Me- roe (PUn. vi, 35). See Burckhardt's Travels in Nubia. G. A. Hoskin's Travels in Ethiopia, 1835. 4to (Gott. G. A. 1836. St. 166. 167. Cailliaud's Voyage a Meroe etc. 2 vols, plates, 3 vols. text. Accounts by Riippel, Lord Prudhoe and Major Felix (Bull. d. Inst. 1829. p. 100), Map by Bitter in the second part of the Charten und Plane. Axum in Habesh (founded, according to Mannert, through the emigra- tion of the Egyptian warlike castes), a powerful kingdom about 500 years after Christ. Obelisks of an anomalous description, without hiero- glyphics. Accounts by Bruce and Salt, Lord Valentia, Travels T. iii. Similar ones in the port of Azab, and perhaps also in Adule. 2. The monuments of Lower Nubia, beginning from Sesce, are sepa- rated from Meroe by an empty space of 30 miles. Temple of Soleb (Reliefs of Amenophis II.) ; Aamara; Semne; Wady-Halfa; Ibsambul [Kerkis], two rock-temples with colossi, the larger is a monument in honour of Ramses the Great; Derri; Hasseya; Amada; Wady-Sebua, temple and rows of sphinxes; Moharraka [Hierosykaminon]; Korti [Corte]; Dakke [Pselkis]; Temple of Hermes Pautnuphis; Gyrshe [Tulzis], with a very large temple-grotto, colossi as pillars, particularly old; Dondur; Kalabshe [Talmis] with a temple and a monument in the rocks; Tafa [Taphis]; Kardassy [Tzitzi]; Debod with the island Be- rembre [Parembole]. The monuments of the Ptolemies and Romans reach as far as Sykaminon (thus far extended the avuoQict of the empire before Diocletian); then begin older works. Berenice on the Red Sea has a small temple. Chief sources. The Travels of Burckhardt and Ligth, for Ibsambul Belzoni: Narrative of the operations and recent discover- ies within the pyramids, temples, tombs and excavations in Egypt and Nubia, Sec. Ed. 1821, especially Gau's Antiquites de la Nubie. 13 Livr. plates with text. P. 1822, also Leljegreen from the Swedish in Schorn's Kunstblatt 1827. N. 13 ff. and the map by A. v. Prokesch from measure- ments in 1827. 3. In Upper Egypt, on the borders, the island of Isis Philse with a large temple (much built by Ptol. Euerg. the Second; the temple still existed at the time of Narses), Parthey De Philis ins. ejusque monum. B. 1830; Elephantine (Monuments of Amenophis II.); Syene [now As- suan]; Omboi [Koum Ombo]; Silsilis; Great ApoUinopolis [Edfu] with a magnificent temple, together with Typhonion, of the time of the Pto- lemies ; Eilethyia [El Kab] with many fine catacombs; Latopolis [Esneli] with a large strong-built, and a small, late, and ill-built temple; Aphrodi- topoUs [Eddeir]; Hermonthis [Erment]. Then Thebes, whose ruins altogether are five gcogr. miles in circuit.