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142 tub monuments of upper egypt.
From Boolak to Bellianeh, 367| miles.
From Beni-Hassan to Bellianeli (Abydos) the
route is long and somewhat monotonous.
The first halting-place is Rhodah, where the
tourist may visit the magnificent factory founded
by liis highness the Khedive.
; The traveller who has a day to spare might
make good use of it in visiting the grottoes of
Tel-Amarna, and Haggi-Kandil would then be
chosen as a landing-place. The grottoes of Tel-
Amarna * belong to the XVIIIth dynasty, and to
that still obscure period when, under a king
who probably labored under monomania, the
Egyptian religion suddenly degenerated into a
schism. If these tombs were not situated so far
from the river, and at the same time at such a
distance one from the other, they would cer-
tainly be more frequently visited, as indeed
they deserve to be. They are, with but few ex-
ceptions, the tombs of officials of the court of
Amenophis IV. (the KJtou^en-Aten of the monu-
ments), and of two or three of his immediate
successors. The personages here represented
are remarkably portly and corpulent. A fashion
has been introduced in funeral matters under
* See note C in the Appendix. — [Ed.]
From Boolak to Bellianeh, 367| miles.
From Beni-Hassan to Bellianeli (Abydos) the
route is long and somewhat monotonous.
The first halting-place is Rhodah, where the
tourist may visit the magnificent factory founded
by liis highness the Khedive.
; The traveller who has a day to spare might
make good use of it in visiting the grottoes of
Tel-Amarna, and Haggi-Kandil would then be
chosen as a landing-place. The grottoes of Tel-
Amarna * belong to the XVIIIth dynasty, and to
that still obscure period when, under a king
who probably labored under monomania, the
Egyptian religion suddenly degenerated into a
schism. If these tombs were not situated so far
from the river, and at the same time at such a
distance one from the other, they would cer-
tainly be more frequently visited, as indeed
they deserve to be. They are, with but few ex-
ceptions, the tombs of officials of the court of
Amenophis IV. (the KJtou^en-Aten of the monu-
ments), and of two or three of his immediate
successors. The personages here represented
are remarkably portly and corpulent. A fashion
has been introduced in funeral matters under
* See note C in the Appendix. — [Ed.]