Mariette, Auguste; Dickerman, Lysander [Hrsg.]: The monuments of Upper Egypt (Boston, 1890)

62 THE MONUMENTS OF UPPER EGYPT.

VI. — GENERALITIES.

A. — The decoration of the temples demands
some explanations. The reader knows already
that that decoration consists of sculptured pic-
tures, and that these pictures are arranged side
by side and in several rows one above the other,
in such a manner as to cover symmetrically from
top to bottom the "walls of the chambers. The
reader is also aware that all the pictures are
composed on a uniform plan. The king is on
one side, the divinity on the other, and the
texts accompanying these pictures are also
drawn up on one and the same plan: on the
side of the king, his names and a few titles in
accordance with the offerings made, and then
the words which the king is supposed to pro-
nounce ; on the side of the divinity, his name
and titles, and an answer wherein gifts are
conceded proportionate with the offering. To
give a general idea of these pictures as to dis-
position and style, we will select for descrip-
tion the whole lower row of one of the walls of
the corridor R, in the temple of Denderah. *

1st picture. —■ The king offers to the goddess

* On the north side of the corridor, the lower register
to the left on entering.