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Chap. VII.] ANTIQUITY OF ITS TEMPLES. 431

inclined planes, as usual in the fortified towns of
ancient Egypt.

The temples were on a small scale, but the style
of the sculptures and the name of the second
Remeses cut in intaglio over that of a more ancient
king, served to indicate their antiquity, and con-
sequently to enhance our regret at their demolition.

Amunoph II. and Pthahmen also added to the
sculptures, but the original founder was the first
Hakoris; whose hieroglyphics, executed in bas-relief,
left no doubt regarding the fact of Remeses the
Great having added his name at a subsequent
period, and satisfactorily proved that this could not
be the Hakoris of the twenty-ninth dynasty.

Ra shared with Lucina the worship of this city;
but most of the dedications, in the sacred buildings
that remain, only present the name of the goddess.
The principal ruins consist of a small isolated chapel
or naos, a short distance up the valley to the eastward,
dedicated by Remeses II. to Ra: a Ptolemaic temple,
partly built and partly excavated in the sandstone
rock : and about a mile farther to the eastward,
another isolated ruin, bearing the name and sculp-
tures of Amunoph III. The dimensions of the
chapel of Ra are only twenty feet by sixteen, and
it consists of but one chamber. Ra is of course the
principal divinity, and the Goddess of Justice holds
the most conspicuous place among the contemplar
deities.

The excavated temple was consecrated to Lucina