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Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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works; sanctuaries partially roofed in, porticoes incom-plete, columns raised to merely half their height, halls as yet imperfect withblank walls, here and there covered with only the outlines in red and black It was discovered in 1873, and an account of it published by Miss Ameli.\ B. KDW.\nDS, inA Thousand Miles up tin Nile, pp. 470-480. Drawn by Fauchtr-Gudin,froiu the \AsiteamVHAiiFOLi,io:s,Monumi:nlsdel)i(ii/2ileetdelaNnhie,pi. ix. 1, and Pklsse hAvenkes, Hist, de IArt Eijyptien, vol. ii., and Text, p. 412. * Tlie English engineers have succeeded iu hairing out the sand, and have prevented it frompouring over the cliif any more.—Ed. THE BUILDINGS OF EAMSES II. AT LUXOR. 417 ink of tlipir future bas-reliefs, and statues hardly blocked out, ur awaiting thefinal touch of the polisher. Ramses took up the work where his father hadrelinquished it. At Luxor there was not enough space to give to the hypostyleiiall the extension which the original plans proposed, and the great colonnade
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THE CUAIEL UV lIllTMOblS HI. AND ONE UF TUli IYLONS OF RAM8E3 II. AT LUXOU.^ has an unfinished appearance. The Nile, in one of its capricious floods, hadcarried away the land upon which the architects had intended to erect theside aisles; and if they wished to add to the existing structure a greatcourt and a pylon, without which no temple was considered complete, itwas necessary to turn the axis of the building towards the east. In theiroperations the architects came upon a beautiful little edifice of rose granite,which had been either erected or restored by Thiitmosis III. at a time whenthe town was an independent municipality and was only beginning to extendits suburban dwellings to meet those of Karnak. They took care to makeno change in this structure, but set to work to incorporate it into their final This is the description which Eaniees gave of tlic conditiou in which he found tlie Memnouiuinof Abydos (Great Inscription of Alnjdos, 11. 32, 33); an examination of the inscription

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