Pollard, Joseph: The land of the monuments: notes of Egyptian travel (London, 1896)

CHAPTER XVII
DENDERAH

Denderah—Antiquity of Hathor, or Nature-worship here—The Greal
Temple—Arks or shrines—The Sistrum—Mariette's descrip-
tion—The small Temple (if Osiris—Typhonium—Mammisi -
Sacred Cow—Sepoys—Sacrifice.

SOON after daybreak the vessel was again in
motion, and by half-past seven o'clock had
reached the nearest landing-place to the ruined
temples of Denderah, the ancient Tentyra, " Ta-

en-Hathor," "the Land of Hathor," **** l^

The mountain chains recede considerably and thus

form a very extensive and beautiful plain, on the

western side of which the ruins are found, a good

half-hour's ride from the river. The village swarmed

with unclad boys whose heads had been shaved

close except upon the scalp, where a tuft or two of

hair was left. The girls were semi-clad. All h.u\

flowers and fruit, which they offered for sale.

Shadoofs were in full work. My companion

computed the average quantity of water raised daily

by a shadoof at six thousand gallons. The goat-skin

bucket was taken at ten gallons, and was timed to one

elevation a minute; this would produce fully the

estimated quantity during the hours of work between

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