Identifier: nilenotesfortrav00unse (find matches)
Title: The Nile. Notes for travellers in Egypt
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis(Ernest Alfred Wallis),Sir,1857-1934
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Publisher: London, Thos. Cook & son, Ludgate Circus
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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is interesting. El-Kab.El-Kab, 502 miles from Cairo, on the east bank of theriver, was called in Egyptian + 2 J ® Necheb; it marksthe site of the ancient Eileithyias. There was a city herein very ancient days, and ruins of temples built byThothmes IV., Amenhetep III., Seti I., Rameses II.,Rameses III., Ptolemy IX. Euergetes II. are still visible.A little distance from the town, in the mounta.n, is thetomb of Aahmes (Amasis), the son of Abana, an officer bornin the reign of Seqenen-Ra, who fought against the Hyksos,and who served under Amasis I., Amenophis I., andThothmes I. The inscription on the walls of his tombgives an account of the campaign against some Mesopota-mian enemies of Egypt and of the siege of their city.Amasis was the Captain-General of Sailors. The tombof his daughters son Pahir lies just above his. UTFU (EDFU).Edfu, 515^ miles from Cairo, on the west bank of theriver, was called in Egyptian ^ZZ^ ® Behutet, and inCoptic A.B.TCO; it was called by the Greeks Apollino-
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Plan of the Great Temple of Edfu. UTFU (EDFU). 329 polis Magna, where the crocodile and its worshippers weredetested. The Temple of Edfu, for which alone boththe ancient and modern towns were famous, occupied 180years three months and fourteen days in building, that is tosay it was begun during the reign of Ptolemy Euergetes I.,B.C. 237, and finished B.C. 57. It resembles that ofDenderah in many respects, but its complete conditionmarks it out as one of the most remarkable buildings inEgypt, and its splendid towers, about 112 feet high, makeits general magnificence very striking. The space enclosedby the walls measures 450 x 120 feet; the front of thepropylon from side to side measures about 252 feet. Pass-ing through the door the visitor enters a court, around threesides of which runs a gallery supported on thirty-two pillars.The first and second halls, A, B, have eighteen and twelvepillars respectively; passing through chambers C and D, theshrine E is reached, where stood a granite

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