DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.4640#0044
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The Hierasycaminon of many ancient writers. The Temple is an hypaethral structure, an oblong
form surrounded by a colonnade. Of the sixteen original columns fourteen remain standing. The
capitals are only roughly hewn; this, and the almost entire absence of sculpture, are evidence of its
having been left, in common with nearly all the Nubian Temples, unfinished. Though small, it is
beautiful in form, but is in so disjointed a state that its having held together so long is surprising,
especially as there seems to have been no mortar employed in the building, the stones having been
apparently secured by some sort of clamp that has decayed. On one of the walls is a rude
representation of Isis seated under the sacred Jig-tree, and there are other figures of the Roman
period, of the time of the Caesars. A Greek ex-voto on one of the columns shews that the Temple
was dedicated to Isis and Serapis.
It has been used, like most of the Temples in Nubia, as a place of worship by the early
Christians, before their conversion or expulsion by the Mahommedans. The Temple dates only
from the lowest period of the Ptolemies and Caesars.
Within a few paces to the eastward there appear the remains of a wall and traces of another
Temple; there are vestiges, too, of the ancient town, but now so much concealed by the sand,
which almost approaches the water's edge, that it cannot be distinctly defined.
Wilkinson's Egypt and Thebes.
Roberts's Journal.
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The Hierasycaminon of many ancient writers. The Temple is an hypaethral structure, an oblong
form surrounded by a colonnade. Of the sixteen original columns fourteen remain standing. The
capitals are only roughly hewn; this, and the almost entire absence of sculpture, are evidence of its
having been left, in common with nearly all the Nubian Temples, unfinished. Though small, it is
beautiful in form, but is in so disjointed a state that its having held together so long is surprising,
especially as there seems to have been no mortar employed in the building, the stones having been
apparently secured by some sort of clamp that has decayed. On one of the walls is a rude
representation of Isis seated under the sacred Jig-tree, and there are other figures of the Roman
period, of the time of the Caesars. A Greek ex-voto on one of the columns shews that the Temple
was dedicated to Isis and Serapis.
It has been used, like most of the Temples in Nubia, as a place of worship by the early
Christians, before their conversion or expulsion by the Mahommedans. The Temple dates only
from the lowest period of the Ptolemies and Caesars.
Within a few paces to the eastward there appear the remains of a wall and traces of another
Temple; there are vestiges, too, of the ancient town, but now so much concealed by the sand,
which almost approaches the water's edge, that it cannot be distinctly defined.
Wilkinson's Egypt and Thebes.
Roberts's Journal.