Title | Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt, Vol. 2 |
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Publisher | D. Appleton and Company |
Date | 1883 |
Description | Index: Phoenicia and Lebanon / by the Rev. H. W. Jessup -- The Phoenician plain / by the Rev. Canon Tristram -- Acre, the key of Palestine, Mount Carmel and the river Kishon, Maritime cities and plains of Palestine / by Miss M. E. Rogers -- Lydda and Ramleh, Philistia / By Lt. Col. Warren -- The south country of Judaea / by the Rev. Canon Tristram -- The southern borderland and Dead Sea / by Professor Palmer -- Mount Hor and the cliffs of Edom, The convent of St. Catherine / by Miss M. E. Rogers -- Sinai / by the Rev. C. P. Clarke -- The land of Goshen, Cairo, Memphis, Thebes, Edfu and Philae / by S. Lane-Poole. |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Location | DS107 .W73 v.2 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1703789~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
Identifier | exotic_201304_015 |
Title | Page 443 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_470.jpg |
Transcript | rrrrr THEBES. m tower fairly well. A much bet: nple, he is the great pylon of Kdfu. The enclosing wall with its lofty pylons shut in the whole of the temple buildings, lake, and the open spaces attached to them. Nothing that went im within the wall could be seen or heard b) the uninitiated who dwelt outside. From the outer pylon an avenue of rams or sphinxes 1, d up to a second gateway, the entrance to the temple itself This second pylon in ever) way resembled tin* first, but the tendency of Egyptian buildings is I in height from the outside inwards, and i itC and hall is generally made lower than the one before it, so that the outermost pylon and wall effa tuall) tops and screens all the lowei md buildifl behind it. The actual gatewaj <>i the temple m be preceded by three or four preliinina THE OBELISK OF LUXOR The hieroglyphics are cleanly and deeply cut in the red granite. The fellow of this monolil in the }'!;»< e de la Concoi |