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LECT. II.] 61
PLATE XV.
EGYPTIAN TEMPLE S: \
No. 1.—Is a view of two chapels, cut in the rock,
at Tshibel Esselsele in Upper Egypt: they shew the
prodigious labour taken by the patient inhabitants;
their workmanship is excellent; they are internally
covered with hieroglyphics; there is a separation for
the holy, and the most holy place; the latter being
moil ornamented. The pillars on the sides of the
entrance, deserve notice, as well for their symmetry,
and handsome arrangement, as for the peculiarity
of their bases; which, though whimsical are orna-
mental. As these are undoubtedly more ancient
than any instance of Doric pillars, yet have bases,
they prove that ignorance was not the cause of the
omission of the base in the Doric order: whose pro-
portions these pillars somewhat resemble. Their
capitals were in part imitated in Greece.
No, 2.—Is the temple of the serpent Knuplw.
The front entrance to it has the great inconveniency
of only a single pillar, and that standing in the middle
of the door-wav: but this temole differs from others,
in having a kind of cloistered space around it;
wherein perhaps the priests walked, and conversed.
It is probable this cloister might answer to the holy-
place, and the enclosed edifice to the most holy.
The most holy place seems to have had no light but
From the door-way; and that by reason of various
obstructions could be so little, as barely to afford
liberty of worship in it. Shall we suggest that the
junior priests were admitted into the cloister only,
and the elder alone into the central inclosure?
No. £>—Is its plan.
PLATE
PLATE XV.
EGYPTIAN TEMPLE S: \
No. 1.—Is a view of two chapels, cut in the rock,
at Tshibel Esselsele in Upper Egypt: they shew the
prodigious labour taken by the patient inhabitants;
their workmanship is excellent; they are internally
covered with hieroglyphics; there is a separation for
the holy, and the most holy place; the latter being
moil ornamented. The pillars on the sides of the
entrance, deserve notice, as well for their symmetry,
and handsome arrangement, as for the peculiarity
of their bases; which, though whimsical are orna-
mental. As these are undoubtedly more ancient
than any instance of Doric pillars, yet have bases,
they prove that ignorance was not the cause of the
omission of the base in the Doric order: whose pro-
portions these pillars somewhat resemble. Their
capitals were in part imitated in Greece.
No, 2.—Is the temple of the serpent Knuplw.
The front entrance to it has the great inconveniency
of only a single pillar, and that standing in the middle
of the door-wav: but this temole differs from others,
in having a kind of cloistered space around it;
wherein perhaps the priests walked, and conversed.
It is probable this cloister might answer to the holy-
place, and the enclosed edifice to the most holy.
The most holy place seems to have had no light but
From the door-way; and that by reason of various
obstructions could be so little, as barely to afford
liberty of worship in it. Shall we suggest that the
junior priests were admitted into the cloister only,
and the elder alone into the central inclosure?
No. £>—Is its plan.
PLATE