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the second or smaller temple of Amm.onx are still to be seen. It
is, however, falling more and more into decay. W. G. Browne
(1792) saw five of its roofing stones yet in position and one on
the ground. He gives the inside dimensions of the building as
32 ft long by 15 ft broad. F. C. Hornemann (1798) estimates
the length roughly at 10 to 12 paces, the whole breadth at about
24 ft. But it is to H. von Minutoli (1820) that we owe the
first detailed description of the temple2. It appears from his
account that the precinct, 70 paces long by 66 wide, was sur-
rounded by a wall, of which the great corner-stones were in situ.
Within this wall were traces of other walls—direction and purpose

Fig. 291.

uncertain. In the middle of the precinct rose a mass of limestone
roc.«c, artificially shaped to serve as a platform or stylobate some
8 ft high. The temple itself was built of limestone blocks, large
and small, bonded with mortar. Orientated north and south, it
comprised two parts—a pronaos and a naos. On the north the
extant portion of the pronaos-wa\l was not quite 9^ ft in length,
and the larger of its side-walls was of about the same size. The
temple-doorway was still standing. Minutoli sketched it from the

ruins Umtna beida, c = remains of the precinct-wall, d—the Fountain of the Sun, e = another
spring connected with it and forming a marsh to the south of the ruins.

1 Supra p. 369.

2 H. von Minutoli op. cit. p. 95 ff.