Edwards, Amelia B.: A thousand miles up the Nile (New York, [1888])

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latest ovals the name and style of Nero, the present build-
ing was still comparatively new when, in a.d. 379, the
ancient religion
was abolished by
the edict of The-
odosius. It was
then the most
gorgeous as well
asthe most recent
of all those larger
temples built
during the pros-
perous foreign
rule of the last
seven hundred
years. It stood,
surrounded by
groves of palm
and acacia, with-
in the precints
of a vast inclos-
nre, the walls of
which, one thou-
sand feet in
length, thirty-
five feet in
height and fif-
teen feet thick,
are still traceable.
A dromos, now
buried u n d e r
twenty feet of
debris, led from
the pylon to the
portico. The py-
lon is there still,
a partial ruin ;
but the temple,
with its roof, its
staircases and its
secret treasure-crypts, is in all essential respects as per-
fect as on the day when ils splendor was given over to the
Spoilers. One can easily imagine how these spoilers sacked

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