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70 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,
in the inside front, are small door-ways, with cornice and
winged globe, leading by a stone staircase to small chambers,
and to the top. A court of about forty feet in depth sepa-
rates the moles from a pyramidal portico, in which are two
columns engaged half their height in a wall, elevated in the
centre, forming the entrance. The depth of the portico is
about eighteen feet, divided by a lateral wall from the inner
chambers, which consists of a suite of three, to each of which
is a door-way, with cornice and winged globe. The ceiling of
the portico is almost perfect, composed of single stones. Be-
tween the centre columns are winged scaraboei, the rest is
covered with Scriptural paintings.
The ceilings of the second and third chambers are imper-
fect; of the third very little remains. The walls here are
highly finished with the usual hieroglyphics and symbolic
figures, that in the third chamber are much larger than in the
other parts of the building. The upper part of the side walls
of the portico have the remains of some Scriptural designs,
representing men on horseback approaching towards angels,
whose hands seemed lifted up in supplication.
The whole was surrounded by a wall of four feet high,
extending from the two extremes of the moles. The depth
of the chambers and portico is about ninety feet. The
breadth of the innermost chamber, measured outside, was
about thirty feet. On the lower stones outside are hierogly-
in the inside front, are small door-ways, with cornice and
winged globe, leading by a stone staircase to small chambers,
and to the top. A court of about forty feet in depth sepa-
rates the moles from a pyramidal portico, in which are two
columns engaged half their height in a wall, elevated in the
centre, forming the entrance. The depth of the portico is
about eighteen feet, divided by a lateral wall from the inner
chambers, which consists of a suite of three, to each of which
is a door-way, with cornice and winged globe. The ceiling of
the portico is almost perfect, composed of single stones. Be-
tween the centre columns are winged scaraboei, the rest is
covered with Scriptural paintings.
The ceilings of the second and third chambers are imper-
fect; of the third very little remains. The walls here are
highly finished with the usual hieroglyphics and symbolic
figures, that in the third chamber are much larger than in the
other parts of the building. The upper part of the side walls
of the portico have the remains of some Scriptural designs,
representing men on horseback approaching towards angels,
whose hands seemed lifted up in supplication.
The whole was surrounded by a wall of four feet high,
extending from the two extremes of the moles. The depth
of the chambers and portico is about ninety feet. The
breadth of the innermost chamber, measured outside, was
about thirty feet. On the lower stones outside are hierogly-