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NECROPOLIS. 103
to separate an object of idolatry from their place of
sanctity, and that this entrance was afterwards re-
opened.
At Necropolis we find at every step a chapel,
■ikeiH^ fQT fag construction of which, the most superb
ancient edifices have been demolished, as well as
some fine statues, sarcophagi, &c. The manner
1 in which the Christians of that time endeavoured to
: \ ' -: introduce Christianity into Egypt was highly con-
• : demnable, destroying as they did from one end
of Egypt to the other all the most beautiful and
» interesting remains of antiquity they could meet
v v; with. The traveller who now desires to copy the
T designs, or statues, or other things of this kind,
x must have recourse to his imagination to form the
nose, the mouth, or some other part of the body,
mgi^oi lies* m°dels themselves being entirely disfigured.
I think that these destroyers must have been a
numerous body, well provided with all the neces-
sary implements, and having recourse even to
ladders to attain what otherwise would have been
beyond their reach; for we find even on the most
wKm j elevated spots traces of their destructive rage,
^ibk • ^ This was a remark which was made to me by
u: ~f* " Count Carlo Crotti of Milan, in the temple of
glfrittok1^ Medinet Haboo, and in that of Karnak, where
to separate an object of idolatry from their place of
sanctity, and that this entrance was afterwards re-
opened.
At Necropolis we find at every step a chapel,
■ikeiH^ fQT fag construction of which, the most superb
ancient edifices have been demolished, as well as
some fine statues, sarcophagi, &c. The manner
1 in which the Christians of that time endeavoured to
: \ ' -: introduce Christianity into Egypt was highly con-
• : demnable, destroying as they did from one end
of Egypt to the other all the most beautiful and
» interesting remains of antiquity they could meet
v v; with. The traveller who now desires to copy the
T designs, or statues, or other things of this kind,
x must have recourse to his imagination to form the
nose, the mouth, or some other part of the body,
mgi^oi lies* m°dels themselves being entirely disfigured.
I think that these destroyers must have been a
numerous body, well provided with all the neces-
sary implements, and having recourse even to
ladders to attain what otherwise would have been
beyond their reach; for we find even on the most
wKm j elevated spots traces of their destructive rage,
^ibk • ^ This was a remark which was made to me by
u: ~f* " Count Carlo Crotti of Milan, in the temple of
glfrittok1^ Medinet Haboo, and in that of Karnak, where