Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in Egypt. For the use of students and travellers (1914)
Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916, Johns, Agnes Sophia Griffith, 1859- · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons; London, H. Grevel and Co. · leaf 122
ptians. They carved out themansions of the dead in the mountain side. Whydid they not also do the same for their gods?Nevertheless, the earliest temples we know con- … Fig. 92.—Plan of the island of Phih 96 RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE. structed entirely in the rock do not date back fartherthan the early reigns of the Eighteenth Dynasty.These temples are generally to be found where thebelt of cultivated land is narrowest, near Beni Hasan,at Gebel Silsileh, and in…
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