DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.4640#0029
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The adytum of the Temple, which terminates the great excavation at Aboo-Simbel, and is seen only
in the gloom of its profundity in the larger drawing of the Interior, is a chamber which measures,
from the door of the sanctuary to the wall behind the figures, twelve feet three inches, and in
width twenty-three feet seven inches. In this cella are four sitting statues; three of them the
Theban triad of deities, the fourth is Remeses, who is here admitted to a seat among them.
Roberts says that the statues in the sanctuary have been painted of various colours; before
them is an altar cut, like the figures themselves, out of the solid rock; it is squared on the sides,
and formed like a truncated pyramid, the top of it is broken. On the sides of the wall, about
two feet in advance of the altar, are the marks of grooves, with holes for fastenings for a screen,
probably of open-work and metal, to prevent too near an approach of the worshippers, if they were
ever allowed to proceed so far. The sandstone is soft in which these statues are hewn. The statue
on the left has an ornament reaching from his chin down nearly to his feet; the second has a
head-dress like the tutulus, or palm-branch; the third wears a sort of helmet; and the last is the
hawk-headed deity. This is said to be the oldest of the Nubian or the Egyptian Temples : if the arts
were thus advanced at so remote a period as the construction of this Temple, what has become of
those that preceded it? for such excellence could only have sprung from progressive improvement.
Wilkinson's Egypt and Thebes. Roberts's Journal.
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The adytum of the Temple, which terminates the great excavation at Aboo-Simbel, and is seen only
in the gloom of its profundity in the larger drawing of the Interior, is a chamber which measures,
from the door of the sanctuary to the wall behind the figures, twelve feet three inches, and in
width twenty-three feet seven inches. In this cella are four sitting statues; three of them the
Theban triad of deities, the fourth is Remeses, who is here admitted to a seat among them.
Roberts says that the statues in the sanctuary have been painted of various colours; before
them is an altar cut, like the figures themselves, out of the solid rock; it is squared on the sides,
and formed like a truncated pyramid, the top of it is broken. On the sides of the wall, about
two feet in advance of the altar, are the marks of grooves, with holes for fastenings for a screen,
probably of open-work and metal, to prevent too near an approach of the worshippers, if they were
ever allowed to proceed so far. The sandstone is soft in which these statues are hewn. The statue
on the left has an ornament reaching from his chin down nearly to his feet; the second has a
head-dress like the tutulus, or palm-branch; the third wears a sort of helmet; and the last is the
hawk-headed deity. This is said to be the oldest of the Nubian or the Egyptian Temples : if the arts
were thus advanced at so remote a period as the construction of this Temple, what has become of
those that preceded it? for such excellence could only have sprung from progressive improvement.
Wilkinson's Egypt and Thebes. Roberts's Journal.