Identifier: struggleofnation00maspuoft (find matches)
Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ed on by the architects of Thutmosis, who laid there thefoundations of a building which was destined to be unique in the world. Itsground plan consisted of an avenue of sphinxes, starting from the plain andrunning between the tombs till it reached a large courtyard, terminated on thewest by a colonnade, which was supported by a double row of pillars. Above Cf. what is said with regard to the necropolis where the Pharaohs of previous dynasties wereburied, in Maspebo, Dawn of Cu-ilizaiion, pp. 4G0, 461, 52S-530, and p. 76 of the present worlv. - Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Emil Brugsch-Boy, talien in 1SS4, from the edge of theplateau overlooking the valley, on the path leading to the Tombs of the Kings. We still find there, for instance, the tombs of Queens Xofriil and Tumu (Maspero, Les Inscriptionsties Pyramidesde Saqqarah,p.2J, u. 1, and Notes sur difiients points de Gnimmaire et dHistoire,■§ xciii., in the Zeitschri/t, 188S, p. 77). THE TEMPLE OF DEIE EL-BAEABI. 241
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THE NOUTHERN COLONNADEOK HATSHOPSITU AT DEIR EL-BiHARI. ■^Sfi^i^ and beyond this was the vast middlej)latform,* connected with the uppercourt by the central causeway which ranthrough it from end to end; this middle platform, like that below it, wasterminated on the west by a double colonnade, through which access was gainedto two chapels hollowed out of the mountain-side, while on the north it wasbordered w ith excellent effect by a line of proto-Doric columns ranged againstthe face of the cliff. This northern colonnade was never completed, but theexisting part is of as exquisite proportions as anything that Greek art has everX^rodueed. At length we reach the upper platform, a nearly square courtyard,cutting on one side into the mountain slope, the opposite side being enclosedby a wall pierced by a single door, while to right and left ran two lines ofbuildings destined for purposes connected with the daily worship of thetemple. The sanctuary was cut out of the solid Iock, but the wa

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