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TEMPLE AT ABU SIMBEL
OH. XIII.
Heliopolis, and to the new divinity Karases Meri-Amen.
The name of the place, as now expressed by the Arabs,,
is Abu Simbel, i.e. ' the father of the ear of corn.'
Neither of the sitting figures which stand out from the
wall of rock like giant forms of the olden time carries
any emblem in his hand which can in the least degree
be compared with an ear of corn. More correct, per-
haps, would it be to consider the name as a corruption
of Pa-Mas, which the Greeks converted into Psampolis..
PLAN AND SECTION OF THE GREAT TEMPLE AT ABU SIMBEL.
A, Entrance, b, Gre.it Hall, supported by eight Osirid columns, c, Second hall, supported
by four square columns, with religious subjects on the walls. D, Third hall, with similar sub-
jects. E, Sanctuary, with an altar in the middle, and at the end four seated figures of Ptah,
Amen, Horus, and Ramses himself.
Although Eamses raised his monuments in Thebes,
and went up to the old capital of the empire to celebrate
the festival of Amen ;—though he held public courts in
Memphis, to take counsel about the gold-fields in the
Nubian country; and visited Abydos, to see the tombs
of the kings and the temple built by his father;—not
to mention Heliopolis, in which he dedicated a temple-
TEMPLE AT ABU SIMBEL
OH. XIII.
Heliopolis, and to the new divinity Karases Meri-Amen.
The name of the place, as now expressed by the Arabs,,
is Abu Simbel, i.e. ' the father of the ear of corn.'
Neither of the sitting figures which stand out from the
wall of rock like giant forms of the olden time carries
any emblem in his hand which can in the least degree
be compared with an ear of corn. More correct, per-
haps, would it be to consider the name as a corruption
of Pa-Mas, which the Greeks converted into Psampolis..
PLAN AND SECTION OF THE GREAT TEMPLE AT ABU SIMBEL.
A, Entrance, b, Gre.it Hall, supported by eight Osirid columns, c, Second hall, supported
by four square columns, with religious subjects on the walls. D, Third hall, with similar sub-
jects. E, Sanctuary, with an altar in the middle, and at the end four seated figures of Ptah,
Amen, Horus, and Ramses himself.
Although Eamses raised his monuments in Thebes,
and went up to the old capital of the empire to celebrate
the festival of Amen ;—though he held public courts in
Memphis, to take counsel about the gold-fields in the
Nubian country; and visited Abydos, to see the tombs
of the kings and the temple built by his father;—not
to mention Heliopolis, in which he dedicated a temple-