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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    on Nordens Voy. T. iii., Beck, Anleitung zur Kenntniss dei* Weltgesch. i. s. 705 ff., are instructive. Sylv. de Sacy sur les noms des pyramidea in the Mag. encycl. a. vi. N. vi. p. 419. [J. J. Ampere Voyage et re- cherches en Eg. et en Nubie, iii. Pyramides, in the Revue des deux Mondes T. xvi. p. 660—89.] 227. 11. Subterranean structures hewn out of the rocks, 1 HYPOGEA. These lie along the Nile throughout the Libyan ridge of hills, and under the contiguous plains of sand. The 2 largest have an open court in front, an ai'ched entrance (arches constructed of cuneiform stones doubtless belong ; a-ltogether to the Grecian period); then follow galleries, 3 chambers, halls, side galleries with shafts or pits, in which lie mummies; as a finish to the whole, there are often alcoves with niches, in which sit images of the gods in alto relievo. The size of the galleries and apartments varies very much (the mummies often scarcely left space enough to pass), the disposition extremely labyrinthine. The Greeks called them Syringes, holed passages. The tombs of the kings in the val- 4 ley above the necropolis of Thebes are on a larger scale; the galleries, which usually incline downwards, are broader; the apartments larger, and provided with pillars, which support the roof In the tomb discovered by Belzoni, the chief apai-t- ment is hewn out in the form of a vault, very large, and de- corated with great magnificence; in it stood a very thin- wrought sarcophagus of alabaster, which, doubtless, was en- closed in one still more colossal, and again itself contained many others, like so many pill-boxes. 1. Jollois and Jomard on the hypogea, Descr. T. i. ch. 9, 5. 10. Among the ancients especially HeKodorus ^th. ii, 27. Ammian xxii, 15. 2. What is said holds good of the arch, of which there is a drawing in Belzoni pi. 44 n. 2. (the other given there is not one, properly speak- ing). Comp. CaiUiaud Voy. k Mero6 ii. pi. 33. 4. See Costaz, Descr. T. i. ch. 9, 5. 11. Belzoni, pi. 39. 40. Belzoni even exhibited a model of this tomb at London and Paris. Description of the Eg. Tomb discovered by G. Belzoni. L. 1822. It certainly belonged to a Thebaic king, Ousirei-Akencheres I., of the eighteenth dynasty, ac- cording to Champollion, to Menephthah I. father of Rhamses-Sesostris according to the Beschr. Roms ii, 2. s. 439. The third grotto on the west side of the valley was called, according to Greek inscriptions, the Mem- nonian Syrinx, Trans, of the Roy. Society of Literature I, i. p. 227. II, i. p. 70. 'Phe Lower Nubian monuments, the destination of which is, for the most part, very uncertain, might in some instances have been merely honorary monuments, cenotaphs, of Egyptian kings. The earlier ones in the valley towards the west. Thus the great grotto of Ibsamboul is evidently a monument of Ramses the Great, of whom the colossi at the entrance are likenesses, and whose reception among the gods is repre- P