Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 40
PLAN OF THE TEMPLE OF EDFOU. Ivoman or Ptolemaic period, and consequently in the decline ofEgyptian art. It is a large and massive building, overcharged withhieroglyphic sculpture and ornament, evincing in its profusion and 22 HANDBOOK OF ARCHEOLOGY. gracelessness the decadence of the Egyptian… … Grecian.—Temples in Greece were very numerous. Cities erectedthem to their tutelary deities : Athens to Minerva, Ephesus toDiana, &c, and the inhabitants of the country to the rustic TEMPLES. 23 divinities. The temples of the Greeks never equalled those ofEgypt in extent, size was not the…
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