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Roberts describes this Temple as an exquisite little ruin, both in the execution of its sculptured
reliefs and in their preservation. The portico, a cella, and the adytum, are covered with emblems
of Isis and Osiris. Casts might be easily taken of the whole of these, and thus exhibit the most
beautiful examples of such Egyptian decoration. The apartments are not larger than middling-sized
English rooms; and such parts as have not been wilfully destroyed present a surface as fine as if
the work were recently finished. In its later time it has been used as a Christian church, and
there are traces of some Greek sacred paintings above the pagan symbols: difficult as they are
to trace, enough remains to shew that as works of art they are superior to many of those of the
early Greek painters found in the Italian churches.
Dakke is the Pselcis of Pliny and Ptolemy; in Strabo's time it was an Ethiopian city,
relinquished by the Romans, who then bounded the extent of their conquests in Egypt by the
Cataracts. The Temple appears to have been built in different reigns. The designs represent
Ergamun, an Ethiopian king, presenting offerings to the deities of the Temple, and his royal title is
preserved on his cartouches or ovals in the hieroglyphics. The cartouches of Ptolemy Philopater
and of his sister Arsinoe, of Euergetes II., who built the portico, and of Augustus, mark the
various periods at which this pet temple was decorated or enriched by the Egyptians and Romans
in the time of the Ptolemies. Dakke was the stronghold of Ethiopian magic. Hermes Trismegisthus
was adored here, and many Greek ex-votos are inscribed to him on the propylon and other parts
of the Temple.
Roberts's Journal
Wilkinson's Egypt and Thebes.
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Roberts describes this Temple as an exquisite little ruin, both in the execution of its sculptured
reliefs and in their preservation. The portico, a cella, and the adytum, are covered with emblems
of Isis and Osiris. Casts might be easily taken of the whole of these, and thus exhibit the most
beautiful examples of such Egyptian decoration. The apartments are not larger than middling-sized
English rooms; and such parts as have not been wilfully destroyed present a surface as fine as if
the work were recently finished. In its later time it has been used as a Christian church, and
there are traces of some Greek sacred paintings above the pagan symbols: difficult as they are
to trace, enough remains to shew that as works of art they are superior to many of those of the
early Greek painters found in the Italian churches.
Dakke is the Pselcis of Pliny and Ptolemy; in Strabo's time it was an Ethiopian city,
relinquished by the Romans, who then bounded the extent of their conquests in Egypt by the
Cataracts. The Temple appears to have been built in different reigns. The designs represent
Ergamun, an Ethiopian king, presenting offerings to the deities of the Temple, and his royal title is
preserved on his cartouches or ovals in the hieroglyphics. The cartouches of Ptolemy Philopater
and of his sister Arsinoe, of Euergetes II., who built the portico, and of Augustus, mark the
various periods at which this pet temple was decorated or enriched by the Egyptians and Romans
in the time of the Ptolemies. Dakke was the stronghold of Ethiopian magic. Hermes Trismegisthus
was adored here, and many Greek ex-votos are inscribed to him on the propylon and other parts
of the Temple.
Roberts's Journal
Wilkinson's Egypt and Thebes.