DOI Artikel:
Naville, Edouard: Excavations at Henassieh (Hanes)
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.12667#0025
Ahnas and Bent Hasan.
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basements of the walls on the three other sides, and even a
few layers of stones have been preserved. This basement is
in hard limestone of Gebel Ahmar, which cannot be burnt for
lime; it bears in hieroglyphs, sometimes more than 2 ft. high,
the following inscription :
" The living Horns, the mighty Bull who loves Ma, the lord
of panegyries like his father Phthah Tonen, King Rameses,
erected this building to his father Hershefi [Arsaphes], the
lord of the two lands [Egypt]."
It appears from this description that the temple Avas dedi-
cated to Arsaphes, a form of Osiris generally represented
with a ram's head. This divinity is sculptured on two of the
columns. The vestibule contained statues of which there are
a few remains. On the southern side, in the corner, was a
sitting statue of Rameses II. of heroic size, in red limestone.
We found it broken at the waist, but nearly perfect. It was
painted in bright red colour, still very vivid on some parts of
the throne ; the stripes of the head-dress were alternately
blue and yellow, like the granite Rameses II., now at Geneva,
which I discovered at Bubastis. The inscription on the lower
part of the base is a dedication to Arsaphes. On the same
side was the bust of a red granite statue of natural size
without any name, and also a group of two veiw weathered
kneeling figures. In the opposite corner was a statue of
Rameses II., symmetrical to the other, but broken in several
fragments. The head had disappeared.
From the vestibule, a door led into the inner part of the
temple. We had great hopes that behind the basement of
hard limestone we should find constructions of importance;
but our disappointment was complete. The temple, except
the vestibule, was built of soft white limestone; and the
result of this is that it has been entirely carried away. We
saw, still in situ, bases of columns more than 4ft. in diameter,
showing that they must have been of considerable height.
But except a few stray blocks here and there, with a few
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basements of the walls on the three other sides, and even a
few layers of stones have been preserved. This basement is
in hard limestone of Gebel Ahmar, which cannot be burnt for
lime; it bears in hieroglyphs, sometimes more than 2 ft. high,
the following inscription :
" The living Horns, the mighty Bull who loves Ma, the lord
of panegyries like his father Phthah Tonen, King Rameses,
erected this building to his father Hershefi [Arsaphes], the
lord of the two lands [Egypt]."
It appears from this description that the temple Avas dedi-
cated to Arsaphes, a form of Osiris generally represented
with a ram's head. This divinity is sculptured on two of the
columns. The vestibule contained statues of which there are
a few remains. On the southern side, in the corner, was a
sitting statue of Rameses II. of heroic size, in red limestone.
We found it broken at the waist, but nearly perfect. It was
painted in bright red colour, still very vivid on some parts of
the throne ; the stripes of the head-dress were alternately
blue and yellow, like the granite Rameses II., now at Geneva,
which I discovered at Bubastis. The inscription on the lower
part of the base is a dedication to Arsaphes. On the same
side was the bust of a red granite statue of natural size
without any name, and also a group of two veiw weathered
kneeling figures. In the opposite corner was a statue of
Rameses II., symmetrical to the other, but broken in several
fragments. The head had disappeared.
From the vestibule, a door led into the inner part of the
temple. We had great hopes that behind the basement of
hard limestone we should find constructions of importance;
but our disappointment was complete. The temple, except
the vestibule, was built of soft white limestone; and the
result of this is that it has been entirely carried away. We
saw, still in situ, bases of columns more than 4ft. in diameter,
showing that they must have been of considerable height.
But except a few stray blocks here and there, with a few
c