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wall of this corridor or pronaos,* Ptolemy Philome-
tor, followed by " his brother, the god," Physcon,f
and the queen Cleopatra, makes offerings to
Amunre; but the rest of the sculptures appear to
present the names of Physcon alone, who adopted,
on his brother's death, the name and oval of Philo-
metor, with the additional title of u god Soter," or
rather " Euergetes."^; A staircase, lighted by a
window of peculiar form once led to the roof, and
the back part of the naos consists of three parallel
chambers. The centre one, or adytum, presents
the sculptures of Philopator on the back and half
the side walls, which last were completed by the
second Euergetes, as a line of hieroglyphics, at the
junction of the first and subsequent compartments,
announces in the following terms :•—" This addi-
tional work of good stone § (?) made he, the king of
men, Euergetes, || son of the sun, Ptolemy the

* The Egyptian portico is frequently very large, and supported
by numerous columns, as at Dendera and Esneh. These small cor-
ridors bear a greater resemblance to the scale and dimensions of
the portico in Greek architecture, particularly that of the temple
at old Qoorneh.

t It is remarkable that the former has the crown of the upper
and the latter that of the lower country.

t Such I believe to be the meaning of this hieroglyphic, and not
Soter, as always hitherto supposed.

§ The walls were already built and sculptured on one part of the
same stones which bear this inscription, in spite of Euergetes'
claims (if the above be really the meaning of this group).

II I use this name at once, without translating the titles of the
prenomen.

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