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QUEEN HATASU. 273
Brune's design. Bat we here see two great flights of steps
leading from terrace to terrace, each step guarded hy two
couchant sphinxes; the two colossal statues of Hatasu seat-
ed on either side of the steps which rise from the second
HAT110R-HKAD CAPITAL.
From one of the fallen columns at Dayr-el-Bahari. (From a photograph by Mr.
W. M. Flinders Petrie.)
terrace; and the pillared portico in the centre of the third
terrace, marking the entrance to the rock-cut sanctuary be-
yond. The columns which supported that third terrace were
surmounted by Ilathor-headed capitals, and of these columns
only a few shattered shafts and two or three fallen capitals
now strew the ground. The color on those capitals is still
brilliant. (") The long wall facing the spectator at the upper
end of the temple where it adjoins the mountain-side, and
another wall bounding the second terrace on the left of the
picture, are covered with bas-relief sculptures, which in the
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Brune's design. Bat we here see two great flights of steps
leading from terrace to terrace, each step guarded hy two
couchant sphinxes; the two colossal statues of Hatasu seat-
ed on either side of the steps which rise from the second
HAT110R-HKAD CAPITAL.
From one of the fallen columns at Dayr-el-Bahari. (From a photograph by Mr.
W. M. Flinders Petrie.)
terrace; and the pillared portico in the centre of the third
terrace, marking the entrance to the rock-cut sanctuary be-
yond. The columns which supported that third terrace were
surmounted by Ilathor-headed capitals, and of these columns
only a few shattered shafts and two or three fallen capitals
now strew the ground. The color on those capitals is still
brilliant. (") The long wall facing the spectator at the upper
end of the temple where it adjoins the mountain-side, and
another wall bounding the second terrace on the left of the
picture, are covered with bas-relief sculptures, which in the
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