Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916, Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford, 1831-1892 · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons; London, H. Grevel & Company · leaf 95
RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE. 79 gods ? Yet the earliest known Speos-sanctuaries date from only the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty. They are generally found in those parts of the valley where the cultivable land is narrowest, as at Beni Hassan, at Gebel Silsileh, and in Nubia. All varieties of the… … two storeys, one above the Fig. 87. other (d). The chapel of Hor-em-heb (fig. 86), at Gebel Silsileh, is formed of a gallery parallel to the river (a), supported by four massive pillars left in the rock. From this gallery, the sanctuary chamber opens at right angles. At Aboo Simbel, the two temples…
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